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Windows Media Player CD Copying Sucks!!
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RoxHard said on September 19, 2004 03:44:
Has anyone else tried copying MP3 files to CD in Windows Media Player? It is absolute rubbish!! Just now I’ve tried copying The Cranberrie’s To The Faithful Departed album to CD via WMP and it came up on 14 of the 18 tracks ’an error occured’. Now I’m stuck with a useless CD consiting of 4 tracks that I already had on their Best Of CD! Does anyone else experience this?
This is about the 10th time this month that this has happened. I’m sick of throwing anyway tonnes of CDs because of this. On every occasion it says ’invalid codak number’ or something. I’ve checked the properties of the MP3s which it says has this problem, but everything appears to be fine. I have no idea what’s wrong with this!
I lost the version of Easy CD Creator that I once had on my hard-drive when I upgraded my PC from ME to XP, and I’ve tried re-loading my version of Easy CD Creator to my hard-drive, both from the CD I have and from an online source. But everytime it says ’cannot connect to a driver’ or something like that. Does anyone know of a good Easy CD Creator-like programme where I won’t have this annoying problem.
Thank you for reading my Windows related rant!
Ferdan said on September 19, 2004 07:46:
Use CDex to rip the CD to the hard disk.
And Nero to burn it to CD.
Denstandigaresan said on September 19, 2004 13:15:
Wouldn’t use something like that for copying CDs.
I use Nero express for when i’m lazy. ;) And Roxio when I want to make it all prim and proper.
I used Real Player once, I couldn’t even get the thing to recognize the songs were there in the queue ready to burn! Grr.
zeeshan said on September 19, 2004 13:18:
U can use Music Match Juke Box to encode MP3s directly from an Audio CD and then use Nero Burning utility or the utility your vendor provides you with the hardware to burn the MP3s.
I have HP CD Writer and I prefere using the software that HP provided. Somehow I think it is good to prefere the software provided by the hardware manufacturer cuz the integeration seems to be very smooth.
Oh btw.. Windows Media Player is by Microsoft so of course it sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Z
Denstandigaresan said on September 19, 2004 15:03:
I’ve not had one single coaster on roxio... where as on nero, I had plenty! (It’s express)
I have nero 5.5 on disc, but my drive is too new and isn’t recognised.
I have roxio 6, had it several months, not had one single coaster... in fact the audio burns sound far superior to nero express!
IF I could use Nero full, I would... but roxio is just fine for me. :)
xarrrr said on September 19, 2004 15:44:
WMP sucks soo much for copying CDs... i cant stand it.
ROXIO rooooles!!!!
coyboyusa said on September 19, 2004 23:06:
lol u should have asked one of us b4 u evben try, i did it to rip a copy of joyride to play at work at night i almost threw my original out thinking it had been degredaded from heat or something, then i played the original cd at work and it was fine I HATE WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER PERIOD
Denstandigaresan said on September 19, 2004 23:23:
Wanted to view something online earlier, but it wouldn’t work unless I upgraded to wmp9... NO THANK YOU! :(
I have a mega old... only stable version... of WMP on my pc, and it’s never used.
I use winamp to play stuff.
ally77 said on September 20, 2004 07:19:
I find WMP is ideal for playing stuff, esp video stuff, but just do not use it for copying... beware wmp 10 is nearly ready!
Denstandigaresan said on September 20, 2004 12:43:
It hogs resources. :(
I will also be avoiding wmp 10. ;)
Ferdan said on September 20, 2004 13:50:
Ok, I’ll proceed to educate those that need to know good software:
CDex: http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
To rip CDs and convert them to WAV or MP3. It even works on many copy protected schemes.
Nero: www.nero.com
Need to burn a CD? try it.
BSplayer:
http://www.bsplayer.org/
Really flexible video player, subtitle support, multi audio support, winamp audio plugins support.
MPC-Media player classic:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=8...
Although the name reminds us of the old microsoft media player, it has nothing to do with the original (other than the looks). It has some bundled codecs so sometimes when you’re having trouble playing a video in one player... you play it in MPC and it might work better because it uses its own “codecs”.
GSpot: http://www.headbands.com/gspot/index.htm
You’re not sure what codecs needs a video you just downloaded? GSpot will tell you what you need.
Winamp: http://www.winamp.com/
The best audio player ever (OGG, MP3, WAV, FLAC, APE, support, etc)
Well, there are a few more... but this is the basic stuff
Denstandigaresan said on September 20, 2004 14:06:
I second CDex and Winamp! :D
Although the new cdex, seems to see a lot of copyrighted cds as data, so therefore can’t be put on your pc as audio... try to get hold of version 1.03... tis the best. :)
ally77 said on September 19, 2004 06:29:
Ocassionally happens for me, but not that often... mind you failing that have not used WMP to copy stuff for a while... been using another programme...