How do I burn a music CD that won't skip?

Question

I just burned my first music CD and it skips. The first seven songs sounded great, then it starting skipping. It even seems more sensitive to uneven road conditions than a commercial CD.

I burned some music from the sixties, when songs where a lot shorter (time wise) than they are now...so I was able to fill the CD with 30 tracks. Is that too many tracks to put on a CD? If so, what's a good limit to us.

Windows Media Player let me burn about 78 minutes of music, and I pretty much filled up the CD. If I burned less music, would it skip less?

Any help anyone can give me would be appreciated.

Answer 1

try burning it at a slower speed , sometimes that is the problem :O} good luck

Answer 2

30 tracks of music, unless they are about 30 seconds long is alot. They have to be very low bitrate which could be the reason. Try turning up the quality in the options of windows media player, try "variable bitrate" setting. it is space efficient but maybe not as space efficient as what you have now, but maybe it wont skip. Also try using a different brand of CD's, maybe the foil in the CD is damaged, if you can see through a CD easily when looking at a light bulb through it, its poor quality.

Answer 3

I find that certain brands of CDs skip more than others. I also find that the more songs I put on a CD (i.e. an mp3 disk with about 80 songs on it) tend to do that more often and I often find that if you record on a slower speed than the fastest one your computer can do, you get a better copy. Try those things.

Answer 4

you answered youre own question there.
try to only fill a cd up with tracks if you plan to use it in a place where it wont be disturbed i.e. DVD player, stereo at home.
if you plan to play cds on the road fill up the cd about 3/4 full so it wont skip, even though it still might on those potholes

Answer 5

The amount of music shouldn't matter. Burnable Cd's are a lot more likely to scratch than store bought ones. Try buying a high quality CD. I personally use Sony for all music applications.

Answer 6

feels like a hardware concern with your burner. Do you have an selection you should use? the main substantial concern CD/DVD gamers and burners have is that the bars that carry the lens get grimy and limit circulation maximum appropriate to envision and write errors. If it have been a application concern then it would be plenty extra probable to not burn the disc in any respect.

Answer 7

You are burning the Cd too quickly or you have applications running during the process. try slowing the write speeed and closing everything but the burning program itself

Answer 8

Make sure the cd disk your burning onto is clean with no finger marks on it.

Answer 9

it dosnt matter how many tracks u have on the cd it just depends on your cd player if it bounces around in the dash of your car, that causes skratches, and that will be even worse on uneven roads, blank cds are cheap they suck, they get skratches on them so easy

Answer 10

Try slowing the burn speed down