Burning Quality CD's

[Jaz]

I've often seen many of you guys mention different audio quality's to burn CD's at but don't know the difference (standard 20 song non-MP3 CD)

is there Certain way I should be doing this or is using Itunes to burn a 20 song playlist fine?

Cheers

[DJ_Raptor]

Burn slow.... and use good media and a good burner.

Pioneer burners have gernally had the best burn quality over time. They are not always the fastest, but the best quality with the lowest error counts after testing.

I cant remember the best media off hand, but ill check through some of the last test results I saw.. I think Verbatim were generally very good.

Personally I burn to TDK discs (not because their particularly good, but because i dont particularly care hehe)

[Jaz]

im just burning to some cheap to mid price range CD-R's and i have no idea what my burner is....its the built in burner in my Toshiba Satellite laptop....

and when i used itunes to burn i just set it at x4 speed

i just remember people talking about burning n saying shit like burn at 256k or something.... if that helps...

[Buck_Choi]

most important is to burn as slow as you can..

some pro's even burn one song per cd..

[Jaz]

serious? fuck that

[Buck_Choi]

haha thats what i thought =) but thats what they do.. and they usually have doubles of them too..

[Jaz]

thats rediculous

[DJ_Raptor]

yeah 1 song per disc is a little overboard, but doubles is a good idea... never know if you will accidentally scratch it or something during the gig.

[tubby]

1 song per disc helps when you need to find something quickly. I burn 3-4, as many as I can comfortably read the writing on the disc in a dark setting.

doubles are not so much if the disc gets damaged, as if you want to play a track next that is on the same cd you are already playing, so more an issue if you burn discs with as many tracks as fit. Printing out the tracklist for each cd is probably a good idea in that case, easier to read.

if not burning as mp3, to fit 20 tracks on a cd you must be playing radio edits?

[Jaz]

yeh it makes sense to me if your writing on the CD's but ive printed tracklists to sit in the CD slots so just added around 20 songs

[lloydc]

I burn one song per CD, through Itunes.

Out of the hundreds of cd's I've burnt, I've had one stuff up. I ALWAYS burn at max speed.

Invest in good CD's and you'll be fine

[Tomy]

most important is to burn as slow as you can..

some pro's even burn one song per cd..

they would be d/l-ing wav and burning wav to i would think.

IMO i dont belive burning slow would really help. its doing the same thing just slower, if you have the technoligy to burn fast then use it. The main thing to remember if your burning heaps of cds at once you need to let the burner rest/cool between each one. i've heard the rule is let it rest for twice as long as it took to burn the cd.

[Jaz]

yeh am using pretty good quailty CD's

what im going to do is mix with CD's but also have My 2 USB/Drives Plugged in for quick/emergency searches like if i quickly remember a great song to mix the current song with and dont have time to search my wallet and tracklists.....or if i get a request i can look through my USB easier then CD's

[CBG]

i burn one song to cd on most of mine, sry but some of u guys cant really comment in that. i dont walk into a club with a thousand songs... no point. quality over quantity.

burn to audio cd, you cant do a wide pitch bend with mp3

[J0rdz]

i just remember people talking about burning n saying shit like burn at 256k or something.... if that helps...

They would've been referring to the quality of the MP3 file you are burning.

If you plan on playing out, I would only recommend you play with MP3s at 320kbps quality.

I've no idea how iTunes is with burning CDs, but I stray away from it as i run windows and itunes doesnt tend to play nice with it. I find Nero is best for all of my burning needs - never had a problem with it. Swear by it.

I only ever burn Audio CDs too - fairly uncommon at the moment to encounter MP3 compatible CDJs at every club around town.

[DjDennis]

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[Jaz]

yeh burnt my last 10-15 at x2, mainly cause i wanted time to copy past the Track lists n print them before the CD Finished

[DjDennis]

Only way to write CDs

[Tomy]

yeah i really dont think changing speeds makes any differance? i would love to know for sure but. we need some sort of IT expert on here, i'm sure there is one floating around already though.

[DjDennis]

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[tubby]

I think you'll find the speed thing was more important back when computers may not have kept up with the writing of the disc and this caused errors. I've never noticed the difference. But thrn it takes very little timeto burn thr 3or 4 tracks I put on each disc so I still use minimum speed, 4x.

[CBG]

fuck i cant wait till you get banned dennis.. will only be a matter of hours now

[tubby]

was going to ask wtf was going on ther,e all I see in pretty much every thread now is *comments deleted*

[Tomy]

would have love to seen what you wrote dennis.

the way i think of a burner is that it does the same job no matter how fast its going?

but i really have no idea haha.