Warning. This is going to be a longish post and not written in efficient,
point by point form. So anyone whose time is short or who just doesn't
enjoy reading anything that wanders a bit, please don't proceed, okay. I
don't feel like getting flamed, today. I've got some things on my mind,
distracting me, and it would take me an hour to edit and revise this post,
and maybe divide it into two separate posts.
thanks to anyone who reads it, chuckles a bit at my perplexity,and has any
constructive comments to offer about the issues involved, which I'd like
to
unravel.
Today I opened the Nero 6 submenus from the Start Menu/Programs as I
always
do, then arrowed to Nero Burning ROM and launched it.
Previously, using the tabs or pages that come up automatically when you
launch Nero Burning ROM (it took me weeks to figure out the joke in the
name, cf. Nero Burning Rome (and "fiddling" all the while, etc.); I'm
going
to have my IQ checked), I'd copied a couple of CDs and, so far as I
remember, burned a couple of compilations (the procedure that one of the
other programs calls "projects"), all from these tabs with their options
settings and control buttons.
But today I wanted to take another look at my actual menus to see how I'd
burn a compilation using the Recorder menu. To my surprise, I discovered
that Burn Compilation, which is the first or second item on the menu, said
Unavailable. The other functions on the menu were all available,
including
the Copy function.
So I started over and launched Nero Burning ROM to see if I could burn a
compilation from those tabs that come up by default. As the interface
appeared onscreen, I heard Jaws say "unavailable," but then focus was on
the
first item in a list of burn settings. Ignoring the "unavailable"
notification, I set all the settings, managed to figure out how to locate
and list the .mp3 files I wanted to burn to the CD, found the Burn button
and proceeded.
The recording process went along fine, and gave me an OK button to finish,
and then I declined to fool around with saving some kind of files or other
to disc so that the procedure was totally finished.
And the CD played successfully on both my computer and in the recent
vintage
(late model)CD changer in my stereo system.
Now, this makes it sound as if I accidentally used a CD/RW for the
recording, but last night I copied a CD using a blank CD from the same new
package (spindle, actually) of Fuji discs, which my sighted friend assured
me said CD/R at the store, and the music CD copied fine. I mean it plays
on
my old Discman-type player, which this burned compilation I'm talking
about,
won't. All I get is static.
So let's assume that Fuji didn't mix CD/R's and CD/RWs together on this
spindle, which seems highly unlikely. Is there something I could have
done
while making the settings in Nero, before finding and pressing the Burn
button, that could have produced this effect? The main settings I can
remember having chosen are things like write speed 48x, the top available
speed in Nero 6, disc at once, and a couple of other standard settings.
No,
it wasn't recorded on the fly, though even if it had been, and there'd
been
flaws in the original, which there aren't, I don't think total static
would
have resulted.
I know this is a fuzzy story, because it starts with my wondering why the
burn compilation function was unavailable yet seemed to work, and then
winding up with a bum CD as if I'd mistakenly used a CD/RW.
thanks a lot.
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