Burned CD-Rs are silent

I just tried and failed to burn two CD-Rs, using AIFFs on one and mp3s on the other. I followed all the steps on Apple's site, but both CD-Rs are silent. Help.

I'm using OS X 10.3.9 and the drive type is CD-RW/DVD-RW. I copied the files directly from Finder, not iTunes.

Thanks for any help.

MacBook G4, Mac OS X (10.3.x)

Posted on Dec 24, 2010 7:01 PM

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Dec 24, 2010 8:35 PM in response to jsamuelpage

Not sure if using a different method of making CD music recordings may help;
in that there are other ways including fairly OK free-ware. Since I've only used
a few over the past years that are third party free-ware, and generally not for
music archives, I can only suggest to look into the audio features in "Burn" as
this appears to offer that option among others. (I've used it for data/backups.)

• Burn:
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

Also, I noticed in your post signature line you've listed what probably is either
an iBook or PowerBook G4 as a MacBook G4, and while it is easy to guess
the unit is not an Intel-based Mac, (running an OS X predating Intel-Mac intro)
it may be helpful to those who may answer your thread's question to know if
the unit is a PowerBook or iBook G4 model. The name MacBook refers to the
newer Intel-based Apple Portable entry-level and up series, so it may confuse.

Oh, the speed at which optical media is recorded may also affect their ability
to be played on some equipment; slower is better, in recording to disc.

Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

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