On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:43:57 -0000, "Informer"
wrote:


"Bruce Tyler" wrote in message
.. .
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:32:41 -0000, "Informer"


Ok this is what I do. Insert CD into writer, click on Nero Express, select
music then audio CD, I then select the tracks. Tracks are shown as Window
Media Player series 9 files within the Nero Express window. The tracks are
uploaded where I then insert a blank CDR. I then select the burn speed and
off I go. Some burns are fine but others have the odd track that sounds
like the volume has been turned up too far on a cheap portable radio and
gives slight distortion at upper frequencies that can only be heard on a
decent Hi-Fi system. In the last recording I did I used Window Media
Player to store the tracks on the hard drive first and copied off the hard
drive to Nero Express. This was the worst recording so far but I don't know
if it would have recorded better if I copied straight off the CD. All music
is taken from the original CD's

On that basis, the previous poster who stated "Learn to make better
recordings then..." was probably correct ...

One other factor: what media are you using? Its *possible* that your
CD player may be struggling to get accurate audio data from some of
the media you're using. It is, in my experience, unusual to hit the
fairly small area in which a disc plays without skipping or major
audio artifacts but has a noticable degradation in the sound ... it is
possible, though. You might want to try some tests by burning onto
different media, using identical source material, software, settings,
process, etc., and see if there's any audible difference in the
results ...

As at least one other poster has responded, though, the first thing
you need to do is acquire a copy of EAC (which will cost you nothing
more than the suggestion to send a postcard to its author!) and use
that instead of WMP for audio extraction.

HTH
Julian

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Julian Fowler
julian (at) bellevue-barn (dot) org (dot) uk