Thursday, 02 May 2019
Does MP3 CD Maker work?
Well… MP3 CD Maker might be nice if it *worked*. I downloaded the current demo version (restricted to 4 tracks), and tried it out with my Hewlett Packard CD Writer + 7500, but it just kept giving assorted error messages («cannot send cue card», «track following error», or some such things…) with no explanation at all of what they might mean, and no guidance in the help file or anything. For what it’s worth, the drive seems to work fine with other programs, and I’ve cut plenty of disks with it without any problems (other than the occasional buffer underrun, if I’m not careful enough about resources, etc.)
Well… I’m afraid I can’t really help much on this. I tried to use MP3 CD Maker myself, and didn’t fare any better than you… all I ever got it to do was to produce a variety of essentially unhelpful error message – I never actually got it to write anything useable to disk, although I have no problems writing disks using Easy CD Creator. One thing I can say is that MP3 CD Maker seems to require you to turn off the «Auto Insert Notification» for your burner through the Control Panel, System, Device Manager, and then select your drive and click the Properties button. If you don’t do this, the program won’t even start to work with your drive. But that said, even after I did this, I still couldn’t get MP3 CD Maker to do anything useful.
Yes, the normalization function can be selected in the window that comes up after you choose «record». However, I must add, I have *never* been able to get MP3 CD Maker to do anything useful… the normalization part works fine (takes an hour or so…), but when it comes to writing to the actual CD all I get is assorted essentially unhelpful error messages… and there’s no help at all, either with the program or on the home site. I write audio CDs all the time using other programs, so I don’t think the problem is with the installation of my burner (an HP).
