CD Burning

[mrzoot14]

what is the most stable software/ the best to make quality copys-burns of cds more in the area of games

[Undying Wizard NHD]

always been a nero person myself

never have any prolems on anything I have burned from DC rips ,data, vcd,mp3,music cd-- everything I have burned worked just right for me with nero

cant get diskjuggler to work (but hear DJ is great) , every prog I have tryed I deleted and always liked nero

[Wolfie]

Nero definately gets my vote. Whatever you do though don't get Roxio.

[Malicious Intent]

Nero has produced a load of coasters for me, but that could be more to do with my £30 DABS-value CD-RW drive!

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

Whatever you do though don't get Roxio.

Being basically new to this, umm, world, for lack of a better word, I do not know all of the shortcomings of Roxio & Nero. Both have failed me many a times and one has come to the rescue of another several times. I still have both at this time. I have Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 and Nero 5 Burning ROM. Aside from software problems, my outdated Sony 4x internal CDR is probably the most inconvenient thing of the bunch. But since it has all been "freeware" (hand-me-downs) it's hard to complain. My greatest problem is this: How do I record in mp3 format directly with Roxio or Nero from an external source through my sound card? Every time I do so, it requires me to burn it in .wav format and then take that data and turn it into mp3. I have not done it in a while but I may have actually used Roxio to do the transformation from .wav to mp3. It actually takes twice the amount of time to do a song this way.

The prime reason for this is that I have created original compositions on my Playstation and PS2 using the Mtv Music Generator series. My linkage is my audio outs going into my reciever and then using a Y-cable with a TRS end from the receiver outs into the input on the tower. I have pondered out loud to many people as to whether or not the USB port on the PS2 could be attached directly to a USB port on the PC. The catch is that these are both A-connectors and no-one can confirm the existence of an A-to-A cable. Although this may sound plausible, I have no idea if the audio would actually travel through the USB and whether or not these two programs would even detect it.

I have managed to record everything I needed so far in the manner I outlined above. If there is truly a way to simplify this process, I would be eternally grateful to know about it. Thank you in advance to whomever can contribute a suggestion and/or solution to this dilemma.

[The Gauge]

I'd say your best bet is sticking with what you're doing now, piping the audio straight into your soundcard.

It's quite unlikely you're ever going to get a PS2-PC USB to work as MTV Music Generator would need to have built in support for USB output and the cable, and the PC itself would require specialist software/drivers to work properly in order to receive the data from the PS2.

As for the burning, unless you have a domestic set-top CD-R burner that can record audio in real-time, I'm not aware of any application on the PC that can do the same thing, so you're going to have to digitize the audio to WAV using Sound Recorder or Sound Forge, and then burn it afterwards. I'd also recommend normalising the audio before you burn it.

As for burning software, steer WELL clear of Roxio, it's designed for muppets and your grandma. Use Nero, it's the business.

Gauge

[shawners]

I use record now that comes with my pc, i have used nero and others, but alcohol is suppose to be good.

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

I'd say your best bet is sticking with what you're doing now, piping the audio straight into your soundcard.

Thanks Guage. Something that prompted me with the USB idea was that there was a peripheral that you could order through Codemasters, the Developer, that connected to the port so that you could add voice or outside audio. That's great for importing but I'm looking for the opposite. Besides, they want too much for it and the microphone appears to be no bigger than a lipstick caspule (or wahtever hey're called). So it supports USB somwhat (the PS2 version) but I don't know if it sends a signal out during playback. About the specialist software, that will most likely not happen and I cannot justify myself buying the PC version of the software. So it seems I will keep my current setup until something better comes along.

And I happen to like my grandma & the muppets, but I guess you can't hold on to some things forever. I may allow Roxio to rest in my Recycle Bin for a while before I give it a proper Deletion.