Music Cd Burning - Not Mp3

[slh2655]

I am trying to burn music cds from original store purchased cds and add the table of contents.

 

I have tried using the "Music Audio CDs" on the left side of the main screen of Roxio Creator 2011. Then I selected "Burn Audio CDs" under the Create portion of the second screen. Then under "Quick Find" of the third screen I selected the DVD drive where the Original CD is located and it is recognized by the CDDB database and populates the left of the screen with the artist name, CD name and the track(s) names. When I drag and drop this info the right screen Roxio automatically start a conversion to MP3.

 

All previous versions of Roxio had the two options as does the 2011 version, but they added the table of contents and then copied the audio directly to another CD without doing a conversion. Why does 2011 have a "Burn Audio CDs" tab and a "Burn MP3 CDs" tab when they both do the same operation.

 

Could the Roxio software have a misdirected pointer in the software? And how can I get someone at Roxio to look at the issue?

 

Any suggestions?

[Jim_Hardin]

One of the other Regulars here can address some of your specifics but I wanted to correct your mistaken conception that an Audio CD and an MP3 CD are the same

 

The only commonality is that they both have digital music and the CD is round…

[cdanteek]

I am trying to burn music cds from original store purchased cds and add the table of contents.

 

I have tried using the "Music Audio CDs" on the left side of the main screen of Roxio Creator 2011. Then I selected "Burn Audio CDs" under the Create portion of the second screen. Then under "Quick Find" of the third screen I selected the DVD drive where the Original CD is located and it is recognized by the CDDB database and populates the left of the screen with the artist name, CD name and the track(s) names. When I drag and drop this info the right screen Roxio automatically start a conversion to MP3.

 

All previous versions of Roxio had the two options as does the 2011 version, but they added the table of contents and then copied the audio directly to another CD without doing a conversion. Why does 2011 have a "Burn Audio CDs" tab and a "Burn MP3 CDs" tab when they both do the same operation.

 

Could the Roxio software have a misdirected pointer in the software? And how can I get someone at Roxio to look at the issue?

 

Any suggestions?

 

It's storing them in a temp folder as mp3's on your hard drive before burning them to a CD.. I don't see any option to change that.

 

Use Copy Disc if that's what your doing. It will make a temp image if your only using one drive or you have the option to stage to the hard drive under options.

 

 

 

 

[Brendon]

Hi,

 

I understood that you were wanting to rip tracks from an audio CD, but 'Burn Audio CDs' was converting the ripped tracks to MP3 - which of course involves recoding and loss of audio fidelity.

 

What you need to do is to instruct 'Burn Audio CDs' to rip the CD tracks as WAV files, which retains full fidelity.

 

For some reason not obvious to users, the controls for this are set in the "Rip" menu. If you go to Music/Audio > Import > Rip and then to 'Options' at the right end of the thick black line you'll see 'Rip Settings'. There you set the Type: for WAV. The Quality: box will be greyed, because WAV is best quality.

 

Click OK, and go back to 'Burn Audio CDs'. It should now grab the tracks you select, as WAV files and drop them onto the right side of the screen without recoding them. There you can arrange them in your preferred order and burn to CD along with the Artist and track names as CD-Text.

 

Does that help?

 

Regards,

Brendon