CD to MD

[IrishMallard]

Do you guys use the MD simple burner? where can I download this?

[atrain]

in the downloads section of this site - look toward the top of the page

[smkranz]

Yes I use Simple Burner frequently. I love having the ability to burn a CD directly onto a minidisc rather than first having to put it into yet another "library" on my desktop.

[riverrock]

Hi folks!

I have searched for a post on this topic to no avail, so if this qestion has already been asked my apologies!!!

If you use MD Simple Burner on a CD with a hidden track in the last track, you are faced with the problem of a long silence in that track.

Anyone found an easy way around this?

Here's what I've been doing ;

1. I make an image of the CD in question on my hard drive (using Exact Audio Copy)

2. I then open the resulting wav file in a wave editor.

3. I save the wav over the original, modified to my liking.

4. I load the result into DaemonTools to check its OK.

5. I then burn the image with a handy prog called Burrrn, which can handle the images created by EAC, which consist by the way of a CUE & WAV file.

6. I load the "new" CD into Simple Burner and rip to MD.

Sounds like a lot of work I know, but I'm comfortable with it.

IF however there is an easier way to chop out long silences by only using MDSB please share the good news!!

[A440]

Simple Burner isn't smart enough to take that silence out. So your manual edit is the way to do it.

Instead of burning the new CD, if you have Nero--I think you can do this with Daemon Tools, too, though I've never used DT--you could also save your modified CD in a folder on a virtual drive, which Simple Burner would treat as a CD (and get CDDB info). Search the forums for Nero and Simple Burner, it's here somewhere.

I think it's a good thing that Simple Burner is so, well, simple. If Sony were to build more variables and capabilities into it, then it would probably crash all the time.

[danielbb90]

Hi folks!

I have searched for a post on this topic to no avail, so if this qestion has already been asked my apologies!!!

If you use MD Simple Burner on a CD with a hidden track in the last track, you are faced with the problem of a long silence in that track.

Anyone found an easy way around this?

Here's what I've been doing ;

1. I make an image of the CD in question on my hard drive (using Exact Audio Copy)

2. I then open the resulting wav file in a wave editor.

3. I save the wav over the original, modified to my liking.

4. I load the result into DaemonTools to check its OK.

5. I then burn the image with a handy prog called Burrrn, which can handle the images created by EAC, which consist by the way of a CUE & WAV file.

6. I load the "new" CD into Simple Burner and rip to MD.

Sounds like a lot of work I know, but I'm comfortable with it.

IF however there is an easier way to chop out long silences by only using MDSB please share the good news!!

Sorry I don't know of any! Unless instead of righting them to a new CD just open the edited WAV file into SonicStage and transfer without useing unnesserry CD's.

[riverrock]

thanks guys ! it's as I thought then. I have Nero and yeah loading the CD image into MD Simple Burner straight from DT should work too... must try it!

[greenshank]

you could also save your modified CD in a folder on a virtual drive, which Simple Burner would treat as a CD (and get CDDB info).

How? Please tell. I've tried using "subst" but that didn't help. SB didn't add my new drive letter to its "Select CD drive" dropdown (and yes I did restart SB and no I didn't reboot the 'puter).