CD Burning Question

[Brokenwings_13]

I really hope this is in the right spot. I have a question if anyone wants to field it. I have recently has issues burning CDs on my computer.

Using a Compaq Presario PC with Vista. A friend made me a copy of Nero to use to burn a few CDs. I burned a few, then did not burn for a few weeks. I went to burn a couple yesterday, and they burned fine...but this heavy static sound is heard all through the music once the CD is burned. The mp3s I am burning are fine. And I am using Sony CD-R CD's. (I've been warned in the past about burning with cheap CDs) I trashed the verson of Nero I had, and tried some free burning program. That too gave the same results. Skipping and heavy static all through the music. Is this a common issue? I really doubt the CD burner is busted, because the computer is pretty new. I have only burned probably 20 CD's with the burner. I was wondering if it was something that maybe Nero did since it was not a CD verson of Nero. Any ideas?

[shoarthing]

Hi . . . suggest you convert your mp3s to wavs using foobar2000 (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Foobar2000) [free], then burn to CD with application of choice, then report back.

[Brokenwings_13]

Man I have spent way too much time messing with this. LOL. I tried putting Nero back in, and adding to the memory cache it could use to run. Then I turned the burning speed down, and it worked great. I had a nice Sony burner in a computer that died 2 months ago, so I dug it out and put it in my new computer, and it burns at 40X with no issues at all. So my guess is that Compaq uses cheap CD/DVD burners. Thank you for responding though, it is much appreciated.

[shoarthing]

Glad to hear you sorted this out.