Poor mp3 quality/not all songs burn

First of all if you're running WMP 11 beta, you really need to get the
released version. It's been out for about 8 months now.

Second, if you set the transcode for Data CD burning to be downsampled to
192kbps, any files that are transcoded from higher than 192kbps to that
bitrate will be WMA, not MP3. You still aren't telling me what your SOURCE
file type is, nor the bitrate.

Third, some people mistakenly assume that since they're using MP3 files as
the source, and they're burning them to a disc, that automatically makes it
an MP3 disc, even if they have Audio CD selected as the burn type. Are you
SURE you have Data CD selected as the burn type? Because if you have Audio
CD selected as the burn type, the above downsampling setting won't be
effective.

Fourth, you didn't tell me if you looked at your burned disc in Windows
Explorer and what you saw when you got there. Did you see .CDA files or did
you see a .WPL file and a folder containing music files?

Lastly, this makes no sense - they skip badly, but when burned and played from the player, there arent any
skips in the song.

How can you play CDs that aren't burned? A CD is a shiny disc that goes
into the CD drive. If the disc isn't burned, it cannot be played so I really
have no idea what you're talking about in that sentence.

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Mike Poz [MSFT]

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i am using windows xp, and version 11 beta. i altered the options for
burning, so the burn speed is slow, and convert to 192kbps. it says all the
songs will fit, and there is no error message of any kind. it just burns.
it is an mp3 cd that i am intending to burn, and all the files i want to burn
are in mp3 format.

well it is weird if there is no auto correct, because when i play cds yet to
be burned on wmp, they skip badly, but when burned and played from the
player, there arent any skips in the song.

I just re-read what you wrote, the files you've ripped are WMA if the highest
bitrate is 192kbps. WMP 10 and 11 both shipped with an MP3 codec, the
highest bitrate is 320kbps.

Be that as it may, the information I gave in the other post is still
accurate with the exception of capacity for the 320kbps MP3 files if that's
what you actually have.

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Mike Poz [MSFT]

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well actually i changed the bitrate to as high as it will go; 192 i believe.
media size... do you mean size as in bites? if so, i burn roughly 650 MB onto
a disc. it says i can go up to 702 MB even though it is only a 700MB cd, and
there must be room for the text (song name, artist, etc).

i think that there is an auto correct-function on windows media player and
just about every other media player that takes out the scratches, i am
assuming, but when they are burned it takes the source file, not the file as
it sounds on the player itself, and burns that (un corrected). this is just
a hypothesis, however...

Hi,

Can you provide a little bit more information for us? I'm assuming the
default setting of "copy" rather than transcode to a lower bitrate, so can
you tell me the bitrate of the content that you're burning? Also, what is
the media size that you're burning to?

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Thanks!
Mike Poz [MSFT]

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