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Post by Trublu on Aug 14, 2009 10:14:18 GMT -5
Okay, so we all have issues with our technology every once and a while. This thread is for people to post their issues, or ask for advice on things they do not know how to do regarding various technology (computers, iPods/mp3 players, cell phones, etc.), and we'll try and help each other out. No guarantees that we'll be able to answer every question, but we'll do our best! (The title is simply modeled after the popular book guides, not to imply that anyone here is a dummy. )
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Post by Naj on Aug 14, 2009 11:25:40 GMT -5
*Naj dips her toe into the thread* Okay, I have an mp3 music file that was made for me and I wish to copy it to a disc. I have a TDK DVD-R disc (1-16x∣4.7 GB). The Mp3 is only 4.99 mg. What do I do? ;D Any takers? I have Roxio Record Now/Audio, Record Now/Copy, Record Now/Data and I have something called Drive Letter Access with Roxio. I also have Roxio Creator 9XE. I also have a Windows XP Media Center. Roxio Creator LE. (I don't know which ones might need to be activated or some kind of upgrades which might cost money.)
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Post by The Reverend Bizarre on Aug 14, 2009 12:15:05 GMT -5
Okay, first of all I wouldn't recommend putting the file on the DVD until you get more music. Here's the reason. Once you burn a CD-R or DVD-R there's no going back. By burning just one song you'll have wasted 4GB of space.
If you really want to burn it, then you want to pick the Record Now/Audio option.
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Post by Naj on Aug 14, 2009 12:42:54 GMT -5
Okay, first of all I wouldn't recommend putting the file on the DVD until you get more music. Here's the reason. Once you burn a CD-R or DVD-R there's no going back. By burning just one song you'll have wasted 4GB of space. If you really want to burn it, then you want to pick the Record Now/Audio option. For this particular mp3, I'd be willing to sacrifice an entire disc. But only on this one.
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Post by The Reverend Bizarre on Aug 14, 2009 13:00:49 GMT -5
Alright, on the off chance do you have a CD-R or just that DVD-R?
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Post by Naj on Aug 14, 2009 14:12:44 GMT -5
Alright, on the off chance do you have a CD-R or just that DVD-R? All I have is what I listed. When I get some more cash I'll get some CD's.
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Post by myril on Aug 14, 2009 15:33:48 GMT -5
Do you just want to copy and store it or do you want to play the file on some standalone player?
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Post by longislanditalian2 on Aug 14, 2009 20:47:43 GMT -5
I have a question, I went to put in a DVD into my CD/DVD player on my computer and now there's an error on Windows media player, saying that I need to update my video card. Well everything's been updated and the DVD worked just two days ago. I can't understand why there's a problem..
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Post by myril on Aug 14, 2009 21:04:23 GMT -5
I have a question, I went to put in a DVD into my CD/DVD player on my computer and now there's an error on Windows media player, saying that I need to update my video card. Well everything's been updated and the DVD worked just two days ago. I can't understand why there's a problem.. Did you do an update during these two days? What kind of DVD is it, original? Which windows version and which version of windows media player do you use? Have you installed any other player program? My first suggestion: Use a free and playing nearly all player like vlc to see if that works.
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Post by Naj on Aug 15, 2009 11:54:50 GMT -5
Do you just want to copy and store it or do you want to play the file on some standalone player? Thank you for asking because I do not know what questions to ask. You need to think of me that I'm in whatever grade in school they teach this in computer class. I wish to play the file on some stand alone player. ;D But please do tell me how what I would do to just copy and store it as well. And why would I want to just copy and store this mp3 piece of music? Wouldn't I just always want to listen to the mp3?
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Post by The Reverend Bizarre on Aug 15, 2009 16:38:23 GMT -5
For one thing you would need to play it on a DVD player that supports mp3 play back.
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Post by myril on Aug 15, 2009 17:09:07 GMT -5
Do you just want to copy and store it or do you want to play the file on some standalone player? Thank you for asking because I do not know what questions to ask. You need to think of me that I'm in whatever grade in school they teach this in computer class. I wish to play the file on some stand alone player. ;D But please do tell me how what I would do to just copy and store it as well. And why would I want to just copy and store this mp3 piece of music? Wouldn't I just always want to listen to the mp3? Well, did I mention I am a backup freak? And not just if it comes to computer files. Anyway. Most stand-alone players nowadays are able to play "old fashioned" audio CDs and newer CDs with mp3 files, thankfully. Many as well are able to play CD and DVD. Look in the manual or technical data sheet (hopefully you have that for your player), what it can read and play. Audio CD's have files too but in a different format (*.cda). Audio CD's are the thing we had to live with before someone invented mp3 and mp3 players, guess you remember. It's like what you get when you buy a CD at Amazon or whatever shop. With most burning programs you are able to create such Audio CD's though yourself, make your own compilations or copies. It makes sense, if you still use some older CD-player. An 700mb CD can be filled with about 80 minutes as Audio-CD. Yes, you can put just one song on an audio CD - you should perhaps, if you're the kind of person liking to play just one song for hours again and again. Don't make me responsible though if your neighbors complain and you're running out of rack place soon (even CD's take place) Burning programs usually take you step by step through the process, from choosing the files, deciding in which order they're burnt on the CD, to closing/finalizing/master the disc (will come to that later again). The process includes converting your files into the cda format, but don't worry, your original file won't be changed. For creating Audio CD use CD-R's. Living in digital age 2.0 already most of us though prefer anyway to have music as mp3 audio file. Storing such files on CD/DVD as data or burn it as mp3-audio-disc doesn't actually make much of a difference. The file will be put as mp3-file onto the disc. There is one huge different eventually. The option "burn as mp3 music CD/DVD" mostly includes, that the program automatically finalizes the disc, while "burn data" can be done either as multisession (to add more data later) or you can finalize the disc at the end as well. If you like, you can say, the option mp3-audio-CD/DVD in most burning programs is for those not knowing much about what to do to be able to play the disc on other players as well. Now, what does finalizing mean? It means, on the CD/DVD is written a table of contents/lead in, the data, and a lead out (filling whatever space is left, sort of). This ensures, that the CD/DVD can be read by a broad variety of players. Most stand-alone players even if able to read mp3 can't deal with a disc, that hasn't been finalized in the burning process, they simply have trouble to find the data, read and play it. You can have that reading problem even, if you burnt your disc with one computer and want to use it with another one. Simply conclusion could be, always finalize. Downside is, if you do that, you can't add any more data to the disc. And what a waste it is, if you use 700 MB space or even 4.6 GB for just one song of 4 MB, right. Okay, for our most favorite one we don't mind to make sacrifices, do we. Ah, long explanation, now coming to your specific task, Naj. - You can use a DVD as long as your standalone player takes DVD (some don't so better look it up in the manual first).
- You can put just that one file on the DVD as mp3 file, but to be sure to play it in your standalone player you quite probably will have to finalize the disc and that means wasting a lot of space.
So better would be: buy CD's - take CD-R (won't be rewritable anyway, so CD-RW, rewritable disc, doesn't make any sense). And maybe you have other mp3 files you might like to hear using your standalone player, to fill the disc a little bit more.
I don't use Roxio, but as far as I know it's pretty much as any other burning program. Look for "Audio Data Disc (MP3...)" as option. When burning do it as "Disc-At-Once" (that will finalize the disc)
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Post by Naj on Aug 20, 2009 8:22:15 GMT -5
Okay, thank you everyone for your input. I need to start more simple than this. Maybe after I get one under my belt I can then come back and read your posts and they will mean something to me. Hopefully someone is still interested in this thread to help out. And remember, you are all talking to a 5 year old. ;D So just copy my question and put your answer under each question, please! 1. I have a disc player connected to my television. I wish to record a television show. What CD or DVD do I need to record the television show? Or can I use both and what type of CD or DVD? 1 a. I may wish to re-record over the disc at a later time. 1 b. I may wish to never re-record over it so I want to record on something that doesn't erase it. 2. I have a CD of a musical artist and I wish to make another CD so that I can have a backup copy to play in case my original CD is damaged. I am going to do this on my Dell Computer which has an E Drive and an F Drive. 2 a. What does an E Drive mean? 2 b. What does an F Drive mean? 2 c. I may wish to use the CD again to re-record. 2 d. I don't wish to use the CD again to re-record.
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Post by Trublu on Aug 20, 2009 11:49:29 GMT -5
Here we go. 1. I have a disc player connected to my television. I wish to record a television show. What CD or DVD do I need to record the television show? Or can I use both and what type of CD or DVD?You'll need to have a DVD Recorder to record anything. If it's just a DVD player, you can just play DVDs. If you have a recorder, then you want a DVD-R or DVD-RW. No CDs for this one. 1 a. I may wish to re-record over the disc at a later time.DVD-RW 1 b. I may wish to never re-record over it so I want to record on something that doesn't erase it.DVD-R, though you can just elect to not re-record on a DVD-RW. 2. I have a CD of a musical artist and I wish to make another CD so that I can have a backup copy to play in case my original CD is damaged. I am going to do this on my Dell Computer which has an E Drive and an F Drive.2 a. What does an E Drive mean?2 b. What does an F Drive mean?I'm going to answer both together as they can be interchangeable. One is a Reading drive, one is most likely a writing drive. (Can't know for positive unless you can say what kind of computer you have, but usually two drives means you have one off each). One can only read CDs/DVDs, one can read and write them (write = burn). Most likely, the reading one is on the top, reading & writing is on the bottom. You'll need to use the writing drive to burn a disk. 2 c. I may wish to use the CD again to re-record.CD-RW 2 d. I don't wish to use the CD again to re-record.CD-R
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Post by The Reverend Bizarre on Aug 21, 2009 0:08:36 GMT -5
2 a. What does an E Drive mean?
2 b. What does an F Drive mean?
This also depends on if you have any external harddrives hooked up to the computer.
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Post by Naj on Aug 21, 2009 8:39:33 GMT -5
2 a. What does an E Drive mean? 2 b. What does an F Drive mean? This also depends on if you have any external harddrives hooked up to the computer. I don' have an external hard drive. But another question. When copying a music CD from the orginal CD which drive do I put the original artist CD in and which drive do I put the Blank CD in? Thank you, Trublu. I will have to try to find some time to do this! It could take me some time to find the time to do this but this is good information!
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Post by Trublu on Aug 21, 2009 9:13:31 GMT -5
2 a. What does an E Drive mean? 2 b. What does an F Drive mean? This also depends on if you have any external harddrives hooked up to the computer. I don' have an external hard drive. But another question. When copying a music CD from the orginal CD which drive do I put the original artist CD in and which drive do I put the Blank CD in? Thank you, Trublu. I will have to try to find some time to do this! It could take me some time to find the time to do this but this is good information! The original CD, either should work. But to burn the copy, you'll want to put that in the writing drive.
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Post by longislanditalian2 on Aug 21, 2009 9:26:58 GMT -5
I'm having a problem with a program GIMP; it starts up normally but once I go to hit a button the whole program shuts down. I've never had this problem with Photoshop, anyone know why this might be happening. This also happens when I upload pictures to my photobucket account, the whole site closes stating that it's a data excusion problem??
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Post by Trublu on Aug 21, 2009 9:32:26 GMT -5
I'm having a problem with a program GIMP; it starts up normally but once I go to hit a button the whole program shuts down. I've never had this problem with Photoshop, anyone know why this might be happening. This also happens when I upload pictures to my photobucket account, the whole site closes stating that it's a data excusion problem?? LII2, Do you get an error # or anything when you get that data exlusion message? Also, since it's a Photobucket issue, have you seen if there's anything on their support forums that might explain it?
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Post by longislanditalian2 on Aug 21, 2009 10:00:32 GMT -5
I do get an error, popping up on the taskbar, saying that it's a data exclusion error and the program ( Internet) needs to be shut down
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