Nero Audio CD not adding titles properly

[katzdvd]

Okay...I am trying to make a compilation cd containing various artists. I have noticed this happening before, & I always worked around it, but I wanted to see if there is a way to resolve it.

What is happening; Using "Audio CD", when I add the tracks, half of the song title gets cut off & I have to manually click on each title & re-type the remaining letters/words. Any idea on how to address this?

Thanks, katz

[src2206]

Hello Katz

Did you check the naming convention (I think it should be Joliet)? In the options menu of nero Express you can find that.

May I suggest another way? Use CDBurner XP. Its free and great burner. You can create audio CD from this too. See if it solves your problem.

[katzdvd]

Did you check the naming convention (I think it should be Joliet)? In the options menu of nero Express you can find that.

I will check that.

May I suggest another way? Use CDBurner XP. Its free and great burner. You can create audio CD from this too. See if it solves your problem.

I could do that, yes. The thing is, I hate having to use so many different programs to accomplish one task. Windows Media player for example, will do the burning just fine, including the titles, but then I have to go back to nero to create a label.

Trying to keep it simple...

[src2206]

Sometimes a way appears to be a simple one but that is not in reality.

Still, I think the Joliet naming convention should sort your problem.

[dazuk1972]

Okay...I am trying to make a compilation cd containing various artists. I have noticed this happening before, & I always worked around it, but I wanted to see if there is a way to resolve it.

What is happening; Using "Audio CD", when I add the tracks, half of the song title gets cut off & I have to manually click on each title & re-type the remaining letters/words. Any idea on how to address this?

Thanks, katz

Sorry but I don't have an answer. All I can say is Nero is a pain in the neck. Most people love it but I never know why. I had problems with Nero left, right and centre. I had problems with the older versions years back and got Roxio. When I bought a new PC recently it came with Nero and I thought I'd try Nero again seeing that it was over a year since I tried it and I still had the same problems. The Nero Media Player can't play everything and sometimes when I wanted to add more data to a CD or DVD, Nero indicated the discs were blank when they were not. One time most of the data wasn't showing through Nero. This also happened with two PC's so the PC never caused it. I never had two burning softwares installed at once, either. More than one can cause problems. I've had other people telling me they hate Nero but not from here.

I think Roxio works better.

[Chewy]

I think Roxio works better.

Nero doesn't mess a computer up, Roxio does. I am not saying that Nero isn't buggy. I have to clean it up from time to time and do a clean install of version 6. In hundreds of threads here in the last few years Roxio has been a culprit in causing burning problems with other programs, not once has Nero been shown to interfer with another program.

Playing or converting avi's is a can of worms, garbage in garbage out.

Exceeding the design spec in a song tag title isn't a good idea, I always truncate the tags for long titles

[paglamon]

Nero doesn't mess a computer up, Roxio does

Agreed. It did that to me once.

[katzdvd]

Exceeding the design spec in a song tag title isn't a good idea, I always truncate the tags for long titles

Wonder why WMP will do it okay, but Nero won't?

[MilesAhead]

you ain't lyin'

Nero doesn't mess a computer up, Roxio does.

You ain't lyin'!! I thought I'd try to get rid of some OEM preinstalled stuff I never use on my Vista machine. I made the mistake of trying to uninstall Roxio. Everything seemed ok until I tried to run DVD Flick. Then I got an endless loop telling me the installer was older than the one necessary ... yada
yada...

I followed the procedure I found on some forums and blogs to supposedly clean off Roxio completely. No dice. All I could do to get DVD Flick back was lay on a backup from before the Roxio uninstall. Basically a day wasted and still that Roxio crap is there!!

[MilesAhead]

oh btw katzdvd, another nice audio CD burner is burrrn.
It has built-in .flac and tags support. It works on both XP and Vista,
at least with my burners. Also I used to have an HP Pavilion with just
the CD burner and it worked without fault on that too. Seems to be
very reliable.

[Chewy]

I use imgburn to clean the filter(s) that roxio installs on the spti bus, but I shudder to think what they do with the video and audio codecs and core system files, a friend completely hosed xp's ability to capture dv video from his cam with an older version of their software.

[MilesAhead]

nightmare

I use imgburn to clean the filter(s) that roxio installs on the spti bus, but I shudder to think what they do with the video and audio codecs and core system files, a friend completely hosed xp's ability to capture dv video from his cam with an older version of their software.

Yeah, it's a nightmare. After rereading the Roxio Clean Install Instructions for Vista from the knowledge base I finally got the idea. You need to download the Microsoft Installer Cleanup Tool to remove all the Roxio/Sonic stuff from the uninstall list. Then go about a manual uninstall. It's ok as far as it goes. They tell you to delete Roxio common files and data settings in App Data etc... but no mention is made of the COM dlls in \Windows\System32 or all the Registry settings!

I unregistered all the Roxio dlls in system32, deleted them. Then used jv16 Powertool to search the registry for "roxio" and "roxmedia" and deleted all that. I'd hate to think about doing all that without a system backup!!! Jeez!!!


So far it looks like DVD Flick and everything works now. Keeping my fingers crossed.

[dazuk1972]

What exactly does Roxio do to cause problems? I'm not denying it happens. I must say I've never noticed any strange things happening since I got Roxio back.

When I said my bit about Nero, it was because I get annoyed with it messing about. When I first got Nero many years ago and when I was burning some data to CD, I got the usual look of it burning and after it hit 100% there was nothing on the CD. I was told by one of my brothers and some friends that they had that same thing happen. Maybe Nero made a blunder on that back then. I'm interested to know what Roxio does to cause problems. Some were mentioned but I haven't had any problems so far.

[src2206]

Roxio (non technically speaking) changes too many things in your system, makes hell of a registry entries and the real problem comes when one tries to uninstall it. The pre installation state is hard to come back. As a program, it is resource hungry and can not manage things in s simpler way. One of my very experienced programmer friend told me that there are too many bugs in that program which can wreck a system.
I do not think that my reply will be much helpful (technically) to you but in a nutshell I prefer to keep as much as possible distance from Roxio.

[MilesAhead]

Gigantic software suites are okay when you first start messing around with burning because you want to burn some discs.. not spend 3 weeks searching the net and reading manuals.

But as time goes on I find I like to use as many specialized lightweight applications as possible. The "do everything" software suite pretty much needs to control your PC in order to do everything. Then when there's a glitch, you spend all day trying to get it working again. IOW the more you learn about converting and burning, the less you need an application that tries to do the thinking for you. Smaller processes, less footprint, more control, easier to get rid of when they break.. and oh yeah, often free or real cheap!