gerax, Thanks for the info!, I bounce everything down stereo interleaved. From 24bit to 16bit. I'm using Office Depot cdrs, good...bad? Should I burn the disks at a slower speed? i've been doing it at....er...24x -Travis

it is common for a cheap cdr burned at high speed to not play in all players. burn your masters at 2x and keep the copies at 12x or less to be safe. most cdr's that i know of are not rated past 12x. i have seen low end cdr's fail often. i use Princo cdr's for my "cheap" ones and HHB's for "masters". Princo is a brand that a local cdr duplication house near me uses. they have found them to have the lowest failure rate for the best price. but there still may be the occasional player that any brand cdr will not play in. L.G. is right about nero, this is a topic that has been discussed here on the DUC in the past.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Haigbabe: Some of the current thinking from manufacturers and practitioners goes along the lines of... burning at a speed which your media and burner handles efficiently. This may be (for example) at x6 or x10.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I agree, but I once made a test with a master I burned in my studio, and sent to a high end mastering facility: they ran a benchmark test on it and discovered the error rate comparing it to the master they burned from the same .wav files I sent along. The error rate in my 2X master was acceptable, but higher than their 1X, so I guess that speeding up involves a higher error rate: I also think these are differences that you can't hear in a listening test, they will only affect the capability of the CD to be played in all players without reading errors, and it's a matter of staying the closest to the original source: a tiny loss in one point (be it A/D or D/A conversion, or whatever point in the process)is no big deal, but if you start to sum 1+1+1+1+... tiny losses then it does make difference. Also at the Mastering plant they recommnded to use good quality burners and medium, and to avoid any kind of vibrations of the CDRW during the burning session (when I do a master I press OK and leave the room, call me superstitious...). Cheers L.G.

Thanks for the advice everyone, I've tryed burning slower and it still doesnt work. 2 or so of the disks work in my dvd player, I mean...it will play the audio but the first track starts 10 seconds or so into the song, and track 2 starts with 10 seconds or so remaining in track 1.....this ever happen to anyone else?? I'm thinking about ditching nero!. I'm using the gold cdrs by the way. thanks again! -Travis