corrupt mp3s?

[wonderboy2005]

i downloaded a full album off of IRC a while back. it was a HQ rip of a cd, 192k/s, eac, lame. i played the files on my pc and they sounded great, so i decided i'd put them on a cd so i could listen to them in my mp3-cd player. once that was done, i played the cd and they had blips and didn't sound very good at all. i listened to both with the same headphones, but obviously not with the same results. also, about 6 other tracks on that cd wouldn't even play. but the rest of the cd was fine. so a total of about 22 tracks out of 140+ tracks were not very good. could this be caused by my cd burner? its top speed is only 4x, but its kinda crappy and i was doin stuff on my pc while it was burning. my processor is only a 766 celeron, but i have 512 mb ram. so why would this happen?

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by wonderboy2005
i downloaded a full album off of IRC a while back. it was a HQ rip of a cd, 192k/s, eac, lame. i played the files on my pc and they sounded great, so i decided i'd put them on a cd so i could listen to them in my mp3-cd player. once that was done, i played the cd and they had blips and didn't sound very good at all. i listened to both with the same headphones, but obviously not with the same results. also, about 6 other tracks on that cd wouldn't even play. but the rest of the cd was fine. so a total of about 22 tracks out of 140+ tracks were not very good. could this be caused by my cd burner? its top speed is only 4x, but its kinda crappy and i was doin stuff on my pc while it was burning. my processor is only a 766 celeron, but i have 512 mb ram. so why would this happen?

I've had this happen before, try converting them to wav's before you burn them. They may be VBR encoded or something. Never had a problem once something was wav.

[wonderboy2005]

but see, my mp3-cd player plays only mp3-cds and regular cds, and i dont want to limit myself to about 20 tracks, so it has to be an mp3-cd. would having other apps running cause this to happen?

[Rickio]

Get a copy of encspot and check to see how those files were encoded. It is possible they are mp3pro or perhaps vbr and you might need to re-encode to burn them correctly.