CS6 Audition 'burn audio to CD'

[joed44681246]

The slowest burn speed option I see is 16x and my car CD player doesn't like that speed. I'm fairly sure that I have burned at 8x in the past but now I see 16x and faster. I've tried several different CD brands but still no luck.Any suggestions?

Thanks

[John Waller]

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[joed44681246]

Can CS6 burn at 8x?

I have tried CDs that are supposed to burn at slow speeds but does the quality/brand have any bearing on the burn speed options that CS6 offers?

Thanks

[SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Accepted solution]

I think it depends entirely upon what the drive you are using reports as being possible. For instance, the DVD/CD drive on this laptop says that it can use eithe 8x or 24x - my choice. As far as I'm aware, the devs bought in the CD burning software from elsewhere (may not even have been internal - not sure) but it hasn't changed for quite a while.

[joed44681246]

Thanks, Steve

So you are saying that my disk drive is reporting to CS6 that it cannot handle that speed?

(I can burn data with Imgburn at 8x so I know my disk drive supports that speed.)

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

It's not quite as simple as that. For a start, you might have noticed that if you don't have a recordable CD in the drive, it doesn't actually report any speeds at all as being available to use. One reason for this is that when you put a blank disc in it, it does a rapid check in a small area near the run-in to see what can actually be written to it, and it won't report until that's happened (it's a pretty quick check, so you don't notice it's happening). The second thing to note is that the reported speed, and what actually happens, don't correspond anyway; the writing speed varies across the disc, as a rule -  quite widely.

This is a pretty complex subject, one way or another, and it doesn't work the way most people think it does at all. There are loads of articles about it, but if you want a very basic indication in English, not jargon, of what happens, then look here: CD burning — the speed you need - PC World Australia

[joed44681246]

I'll check that out.

Thanks again!