Nero problems...

[spinn]

I've got Nero 5.5.16 on a PII 350MHz w/230MB ram and a VIA chipset motherboard. Chipset drivers have been installed. It seems that I'm able to burn CD copies with no problem. But I tried to burn a CD from MP3 files on the harddrive and the sound quality was terrible. What sort of settings should I have my computer setup for? I'm wondering if it's the harddrive that's causing the problem (it's my friend's drive and it's probably an old UDMA33 drive)...perhaps it needs to be defragged 1st? I've burned MP3s before w/UDMA66 drives with no problems...but I might have had my PIII 667 processor in there at the time. For the record, if anyone could provide me with all the proper settings I should be using, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

 

[4824guy]

What is the bit rate of the MP3's that are being converted to wave files? If the bit rate is low, your cd will be poor quality. Make sure your HD is not defraged is a good thing, do a defrag on it if you haven't in the last few weeks.

You can also listen to and play the files using Nero before acutally burning them. How do they sound before burning?

 

[jscobie]

4824guy knows it, did you know that MP3 is a lossy format? very lossy, what it does is take a 5 minute 50M file and smash (read remove the sampling rate...and put it lower, hopefully 128, as this seems the best) it to 4-5M. now think if a program can compress it to 10% of its original size something is being loss. now the best is a CD-CD copy, since we know you are not burning illegally obtained MP3z right? (LOL)