[CARLX]

I have Roxio Creator LE provided on a Dell Inspiron 9400.

After burning CDs, they skip horribly after a few tracks, as though they are being burned at too fast a rate. I have tried to adjust the burn speed, but the only option in the options field is 'Max'.

I'm not sure why this is happening...it's happened with a few brands of CDs..

How can I change the burn speed?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Carl

[Richard Fdisk.exe]

DRM Strikes again!

the burn speeds available to you are wholly dependant on the actual drive and also dependant on what the disk is rated for. (you won't be able to select a burn speed until there is a disk in the drive)

the two drives that I have don't allow me to burn at anything under 15x for audio cd's but if I stick an ancient 74minute 650MB CD that's only rated for 1 - 4x I will get the 4x even though the burner and EMC is set for 15x. It shows in the progress window "Target Max. 15x" and the line below it is "Actual burn speed 4x" but only on those ancient cd's if I put in a new CD 80minute 700MB it goes up to 15x right away and then proceeds to cook the disk so that it's barely usable and usually not at all usable.

I pulled an old "CD only" burner out of a 2002 P4 and I can set the burn speed on it right down to 1x if I want to, but 4x is ideal for Audio CD's because there's no ECC bytes like on Data CD's, which btw is why you can fit 800+ MB of 44,100 16bit audio files onto a 700MB CD when it's used for an Audio CD.

another tip, is to defrag your disk before doing any CD/DVD burn because when the files aren't "contiguous" then the drive heads have to jump all over the place looking for the bits & pieces of the files it's trying to supply to EMC and at fast burn speeds there can be problems especially with super fragmented files.

Cheers
RfD

[Big_Dave]

You might want to check to ensure you have the latest firmware installed for the drive. That might help with the media. If the software is doing it's job properly then it should pickup the media rated speed and burn to that rate. However, life is never perfect.