I usually make my CDs on my desktop computer using Nero. Had a bit of a problem with two of them. It said it didn't recognise the 'format' of two of the tracks so cut them out completely! Never had that problem before. These are WAV files, and they played perfectly OK through
Windows Media Player.
So I thought I would try 'burning' a CD on my laptop , which I had never tried doing before. So set it all up ready to Burn using
Windows Media Player. Horror of horrors, this time there were
four tracks on the CD highlighted
red, which it said it could not do.
What to do now? Had a word with Den (the other Administrator of TDP) as I knew he made CDs of his music. He said he used a 'FREE' program for burning CDs called
Ashampoo. So I went looking for it on Google.
Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE Found this:
Clicked on the LINK:
https://www.ashampoo.com/en/usd/pin/7110/burning-software/burning-studio-free.. which took me to this:
I had to
Register and provide an email address; look in my INBOX and confirm my Registration with a click.
Have downloaded
SETUP (an EXE file) and double-clicked on it to install the actual
Ashampoo program. It has left an 'icon' on my desktop, and I have done a right-click to
Pin to taskbar so I have it permanently showing at the very bottom.
Next, I ran the program to make a CD. First I had to close an 'advert' trying to get me to buy the top version (I think I'll stick with the FREE version). In the first screen you get you have to choose what you want to do.
I clicked on
Audio + Music, then
Create Audio CD. You get a blank box .. and have to click on the
+ sign on the right to go find the WAV files you want to have on the CD.
*Note:* When you do this it always puts the
last one you choose as
No: 1 on the list. Nero did this as well. So I highlight the second track, hold down the
Shift key and click on the last track at the bottom, which highlights 2 to 17 (see below):
I then hold down the
Ctrl key and click the No:1, which then highlights
all of them .. and the No: 1 was the last one I added in so it will appear first. Click on
Add at the bottom. Close the 'Search' box and you will have all the tracks in the correct order ready to burn. Click
Burn and insert a blank CD-R when asked.
Success! When it had finished I got this:
I have listened to the CD and it sounds fine.
I am very impressed with this program for making CDs .. and it's FREE!
Thanks Den for pointing it out to me!
Hugh