| From: | Richard Lane |
| Date: | 29 Oct 2000 at 14:06:51 |
| Subject: | Re: MP3 decoding/MakeCD |
Hello Eds
On 27-Oct-00, Eds Borthwick wrote:
>> Any suggestions?? If I have to decode the MP3s first, that's no
>> problem...just would like to save the step if possible....
>
> I would suggest never to burn a CD on the fly, I've produced way too many
> beermats, even on really fast PCs to consider it worthwhile.
>
> Just accept the fact that your going to get a more reliable result if you
> wait those extra few minutes.
Last week for the first time I tried decoding MP3's to CD on the fly. Even
giving MakeCD every spare bit of ram I had as a buffer I suffered buffer
underuns. I solved this by setting the write speed of audio CD's to "2",
works a treat, though it's a bit upsetting when I have a 12x speed burner. :)
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