[SteveG23]

I am using EMC 9 and it works well except:

1. In both MyDVD and Music Disk Creator, it burns the disk to 98% and stops. This always happens in MyDVD and usually in Music Disk Creator. The burner light stays on and I can't quit the program. Clicking Cancel does not work - it just continues to say "canceling" forever. I have to hard-boot even to eject the disk. (I had exactly the same problem in EMC 8 but was hoping the new version would fix this.)

2. The above does not happen if instead of burning directly to disk, I only burn to an Image file and then copy the image to disk using Disk Copier. This has yielded correct results so far in MyDVD with .iso files. HOWEVER -

3. In Music Disk Creator, no matter what I do (burn directly to disk or burn a .C2D image file first and copy it to disk), I get a strange symptom at the end of the disk when I play it back. For about the last 30 seconds of the last track on the CD, I get either silence or a loud buzz. On playback on my PC, it is continuing to play - the music player software shows not only that the track is counting out to the end, but the "visualizer" shows that there is music playing! - but there is silence or the buzz.

• This does not depend on the player - I have tried the disks on my PC, two home stereos, and the car stereo, and in all cases it plays fine up to the end of the last track.
  
• It is not a problem with the blank disks - I have gotten the same results on numerous ones.
  
• It is not a problem with the original track or putting too much on a disk - I have tried deleting the last track or replacing it with something else, and I get the same results. The tracks themselves (usually .wav files) play fine on my PC before burning. Whatever is the last track, this is what happens to it.
  
• It is not a problem with the hardware, or at least I don't see how it can be. Everything works fine in other programs, and all my drivers and firmware are up to date.

My system:

• Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
  
• Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz
  
• Asus PVP800-VM motherboard, Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller, Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit audio
  
• 1.5 GB RAM
  
• Running McAfee Virusscan, Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D (all recently run and updated)
  
• 90+ GB free on main data disk; 10 GB free on separate partition for Temp files; both defragmented
  
• CompUSA/AOpen DVD+/-R DL drive, Dynex and other CD-R's, Fuji and other DVD+R DL DVD's

Any ideas?

[LindaW]

I have the same problem only I haven't tried saving to an Image file. I was told this morning, after numerous calls to tech support that they have had problems before with AOpen dvd burner...that they were not able to fix.

[gi7omy]

A quick check on Google shows that the AOpen 1616 drive seems to be having a lot of problems in failing to operate properly. Did you check the AOpen website for firmware updates for the model you have?