Can anyone recommend a decent make cd-r .......

I've got a brand new 100 spindle of datawrite titantiums if anyone wants to make me an offer.

i've rarely had any trouble with the Maxell 80 minute Digital audio CDR 25 spindle packs from

http://www.dvd-and-media.com/cdr-digital-audio.htm

you can get 90 minute cds now.

Yeah i have the same problem with my numark axis 9, the music skips twice a track very frustrating, i firstly used the imation cds that are on offer at Morrisons then a friend recommended tesco own brand ones which to be honest were much worse. I use Roxio or itunes to burn, any suggestions would be appreciated.

imation are usually pretty. Any of the big brands - sony, verbatim, something like that - but the big thing - WRITE AT A SLOW SPEED if you're experiencing problems. 4x

mine are still jumping like and ive worked out how to get nero to burn at 4x in xp64 , got a stack of fairly decent cd-r's as well ( cant remember the make tho ) Could it just be nero ???

Could it be the files im useing are dodgy in the 1st place ?? as the majority is off trancetraffic as i like to try b4 i buy if ya know wot i mean lol

this happens in both my cdj1000's and if a cd skips/jumps its always in the same place on that particular cd :spangled:

have u listened to that point in the MP3 on the PC to see if it jumps? it could have jumped if it was ripped from vinyl or as it was encoded. i could be nero i suppose, doesn't hurt to try something else to burn it - even if it's just Media player

is it an old writer?

have u tried the disks in other CDJs?

nah , well maybe a year or 2 ish , its a pioneer dvd 108 i think , naah havent tried em in other cdjs , but the pair i have were bought seperate with a year gap between getting them , from the same shop tho and both mk2's , mind u retail bought cd's play no probs !!!

mite give media player a shot just incase it is nero !!

is it EVERY disk u burn? do other tracks on the SAME CD play ok?

i'd

1) check the MP3s, make sure they're ok - listen all the way thru make sure there's no skips

2) try different software for burning - i can't see it being that - but u might as well cover every angle

3) Get the MP3 on another machine with another writer, burn it there - make sure it's not like a buffer/hardware fault with the PC/OS/Writer

did it do it b4 the upgrade to x64?

Here's one thats worth a shot :

Some hardware/OS's have problems accessing IDE devices AND multitasking at the same time, writing to CDs/DVDs so they use DMA mode - there is a slower, more reliable mode but it means u can't do anything else on the machine at the time, called PIO mode.

To set your writer to PIO mode, do this :

My Computer > Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers - then select the channel the writer is on, and click Properties > Advanced Settings and change from DMA to PIO.

Try again. Change it back afterwards as DMA is the better mode.

worth a shot

Yeah its just about every cd i burn , some cd's with 3 or 4 tracks on only skip on some of the tracks not all of them , usually always the 1st track tho and mostly at the begining , which is really frustrating when ur trying to mix a track in lol !!

Gonna have a listen thru the tracks that ive burned so far on the pc 2nite n see wot there like there , then if their ok gonna try media player to burn em and have another shot.

Dunno about pre xp-64 as i was without home pc for a while and when i rebuilt i made a 64 bit system with xp64 from day one !!

could be 64bit/hardware/OS issues - thats what i'd be unsure of - untested stuff that u're not sure if it's all proven to work together - could be that... easy way, stick a load of MP3s on a flash drive, go to a mates with XP and a different writer - try again... then take your writer - and try that - as many possible combinations to try tie down exactly what it is

sounds like a lead in problem might be the buffer.