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Every now and then I get this problem when burning audio cd?s. The tracks are all numbered and divided correctly, but on one or two of the tracks, the time doesn?t start anew at 0:00 at the beginning of the song - rather, it just continues counting from the end of the last song. So if track 3 is 4:26.5033 long, the cd player displays 4:26 as track 4 begins, and clicks over to 4:27 after the first half-second. So if track 4 is exactly 3:00 long, the cd player displays 7:26 as it ends. This is the time as displayed on the LCD of a regular cd player. When I play such discs on my computer, the display on the cd-player program (Win2k) starts over at 0:00 at the beginning of every song.
Anyway, this issue isn?t much of a problem - my cd player will still play the discs. However, I cannot skip to the beginning of the offending track (the one whose time doesn?t re-start at 0:00, such as track 4 in my example above). I can skip to the beginning of tracks before and after that track, but not the track itself.
So not a big deal, but it?s an imperfection. I?m curious if this would be a problem stemming from the cd-r discs I?m using (most recent occurrences are on CMC discs, but has occurred with other media in the past), or from my CD-RW drive (a BTC 12x8x32), or from the burning program (I have Nero 5.x, burnatonce, and NTI CD-maker - the recent errors have only been with burnatonce, but this error isn?t frequent enough to statistically say that it ?only occurs when I?m using burnatonce?).
Thanks for any help in this matter,
Tim
For the record, I have had other problems with burning audio cd's, such as when the track timing is off (e.g., track 3 is 0:00 and track 4 is 7:26 long. So the disc still plays through just fine, but there is no way, whether the cd is playing in my computer or in a regular cd player, to skip to the true beginning of track 4.
Have also had rare occurrences of each track starting a short amount of time later than it should (which means that track 1's true beginning starts in the lead-in, and is thus unplayable). And this has happened with Nero.
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