CD burning software help?

JIMBO · Post by **JIMBO** » Sun May 21, 2006 12:30 am

Can anyone recommend some CD burning software (Mac compatible!) ?
My Toast 7.0 still leaves tiny gaps between tracks even with the settings on 0 seconds. It's driving me mad and ruining all me live Orbital moments!!

Cheers peeps!

Kagey · Post by **Kagey** » Sun May 21, 2006 1:02 am

*goes to shed and gets bunsen burner out*
how crispy do ya want them ?

the PLA · Post by **the PLA** » Sun May 21, 2006 1:43 am

Are you burning straight from Mp3 to CD? If so try coverting the Mp3's to Wave & then bruning the Waves to CD. Some software still has trouble doing gapless while decoding Mp3.

Post by **Loopz** » Sun May 21, 2006 7:43 am

Dont play wiv macs but i know some pc old pc burners (hardware) cant burn at disc at once to enable the gapless tracks. Can u get Nero for the mac?

JIMBO · Post by **JIMBO** » Mon May 22, 2006 12:58 am

I'll have a look for this Nero thing Steve, no idea if there be a mac version. Maybe its my physical burner. Shame if it is as its supposed to be a decent one. Most of the files i was burning were FLAC files which I assume are v. high quality audio and come with the toast logo stamped on 'em. No idea if they have read/write issues akin to MP3. I haven't tried burning a cd straight from Itunes, but can't seem to import the FLAC files or easily convert them to another format. Any more ideas anyone? Thanks guys!

hippy dave · Post by **hippy dave** » Mon May 22, 2006 2:28 am

i don't -think- nero is available for mac.
if you're working from flac files it might be worth converting them to wav first before burning, but that might not be the issue. & i don't know about any mac burning software but you want to make sure whatever software you're using supports (and is set to) "disc-at-once" mode - which loopz mentioned. this burns the whole disc concurrently and is the only way of getting absolutely no gaps, as opposed to "track-at-once" mode which treats the tracks as seperate entities so there's always some gap.

*edit* googled toast, sounds like it supports disc-at-once, so have a look and see if that's turned on when you burn...

JIMBO · Post by **JIMBO** » Mon May 22, 2006 3:25 pm

Thanks Dave!

DOA is turned on in Toast so that's clearly not the problem...What is the easiest way to convert FLAC files to WAV? What do I need to use?

hippy dave · Post by **hippy dave** » Mon May 22, 2006 5:43 pm

hm try this maybe...

JIMBO · Post by **JIMBO** » Wed May 31, 2006 3:46 pm

Thanks Dave - nicely done!

MacFlac worked a treat to convert my FLACs to WAV and Toast was much happier with WAV files ; no more gaps for me! Yippee!

I owe you beer!

hippy dave · Post by **hippy dave** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:04 pm

i like beer!