I'm sorry that this is probably in the wrong forum, but I really need help!! When I try to make a compilation audio CD using multiple source CDs my system freezes up on me. I'm using Easy CD creator on an IBM Aptiva computer. I had to uninstall RealJukebox cos it screwed up the system when trying to do the CD layout, and now when i go to burn the disc, it prompts me to insert the first source disc, then when I go to hit OK, I find everything is frozen, aside from the START button, and the only way to unfreeze it is to eject the source disc, which sometimes it won't do. Twice it has managed to burn the first track, then frozen up on the second.

I have burned WAV files and copied a CD previously and they went fine- is this a problem with the CDROM drive or my hard disk? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-- jimmy sams (dimitysams@hotmail.com), April 19, 2001

Answers

Why don't you extract the individual CD-audio tracks first to your HDD before creating your compilation CD?? You can do this in Easy CD itself: load the first CD, drag your choice track to the layout, select that one (it's the ONLY one) then track>pre-record to a WAV file. The pre-record to a WAV file dialogue box pops up asking for the directory to save to and filename; you may want to name it the actual title for easy identification later on, like "I Don't Know What U Want but I Can't Give It Anymore.WAV" Then you insert the second CD, etc., until you have all the tracks you want have been extracted to the *.WAV files now on your HDD. A few important things here in case you're not aware: your CD-ROM drive should be capable of reliable audio-extraction (most recent CD-ROM and CD-R/RW drives are), and tracks coming from different CDs may have wildly different volume levels, so you need to open them in an audio editor app to "normalize" the levels (setting an arbitrary level common to all tracks to avoid sudden changes in volume) before creating your compilation audio-CD. Okay now anything about S/VCD you want to ask about??

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), April 22, 2001.