CD/DVD--Will it hurt quality,  if I burn 8x speed disk at 16x speed?
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It will hurt!\n\nAn 8x recordable speed disc is only designed to be recorded at 8x speed.  Any faster, and you risk producing a bad recording, with the chance of errors and unreadable sectors increasing the more you exceed the rating.  Unreadable sectors give you lost data, or drop-outs in audio/video.\n\nAs for reading discs, that same disc rated for 8x recording might also be rated for 16x or faster reading, once you've recorded your data.\n\nOn a related note, if you're concerned with quality, choose the manufacturer of your DVD media well.  Not all recordable DVD's are created equal, and you will have poor results with some cheaply manufactured media, regardless of the speed.  In general, the DVD's manufactured by certain Japanese corporations offer the best quality today (2006).
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That's tough to answer without hearing the noise and comparing to the disc activity light.  To be safe, yes, be prepared for the worst.  You might start backing up your My Documents to CD/DVD or an external hard drive.
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yes the  speeds on your burner relate to how fast your burner can burn but your discs will determine what speed you actually burn at
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Most computers can handle it, "IF" that's all you are doing. You might have to burn @ really slow speeds, like 4X and shut down all other apps and walk away from the PC while it's doing it, but I use to burn CDs on my first 166MHz pentium and it work great. Just don't try to do it at the top speed of the burner and don't be on the PC while burning.
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If it's only 699.13, it should be fine.  It's under the limit, and most CD's will let you overburn by a couple of megs anyways.  To be honest though, the only cd-burning programs I know where you can split up a file are Nero and Roxio.
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Just use a cd-rw.  That's it.  good fun :-)
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The awesome sponging that is ISO when when making 1:1 cd copies.\n\nIt just has a bunch of "empty space"(bytes filled with spacebar characters) and the compression program saves those white spaces in exponential notation rather than packing each useless byte.
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A few things to check on:\n\n1. What is the max burn speed of your CD's? Check the label.\n\n2. Upgrade your CD burner to the latest firmware (go to your CD burner's manufacturer site to d/l the firmware upgrade tool and the latest firmware file)\n\n3. Upgrade to latest version of Nero.\n\n4. What is the brand of the CD's you are using?  Some brands are not totally compatible with certain burners.  So, if the firmware or Nero upgrade does not help, try using a different brand of CDs
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Windows Media isn't the best burning format...I've always had lots of problems with it...use iTunes, it makes burning cd's so easy!
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yes, but i have found media player makes a crappy cd. i would use nero
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no, burning at a slower speed is better for an older drive so it is able to keep up with the information from the computer.  it has nothing to do with the bitrate of the music.\n\nIm going to edit My Answer and say this, You ask about the Quality of the music, and im still going to say no, BUT it does improve the quality of the DISK and the actual DATA.  but as far as sound goes, you wouldn's see any significant difference.
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The simple answer is you don't. CDs are encoded very differently from MP3s (and obviously MP3s don't play in a "normal" CD player). MPEG supports compression, but audio CDs do not. If you want over 80 minutes, you will need a longer CD (>80m CDs are not really CDs, per se, and might not play in your CD player -- 80 minutes is the max specified by the CD specification).\n\nOverburning may give you some extra time, but usually no more than 5 minutes (and almost never more than 10 minutes). Some CD burners do not support this and no CDs are really designed for it. As a result, using overburning can potentially damage your CD and/or your CD burner.
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Yep. It's just a DVD rom, not a burner. 40x CD read, 8x DVD read.
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Is it a 16x burner? If it is, try updating the firmware.
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In theory, you could copy a feature length movie (most of which are on 8.5 gb dual layer disks) onto one without having to compress it. But the blanks are still very expensive, and the whole DVD shebang is on the verge of obsolencence anyway, so don't bother with it if you haven't already got one, unless you have a specific reason for having one.
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There are many good answers already given above, and a few bad ones. \n\nNot one person has mentioned important factors such as how much RAM you have, how fast your CPU is, or even more importantly, WHAT you are burning in the first place.!!\n\nI you are burning a wide variety of files scattered all over \nyour computer, say from another CD, a USB memory device, \nmany different folders from dfferent harddrives, all at once,\nthen there is a hiccup every time the computer has to load in the data from a different location... Burn slow !\n\nIf you are gathering MP3 songs which are scattered all over your harddrive in many sub-nested folders, burn slower.\n\nIf you a copying another CD of your favourite songs or MP3's, you have to consider - how fast is the CD you are reading from, how fast is the data tranfere From one CD to the other, and not just in terms of the " rated" speed, but is one a Master, and the other Slave on the SAME CABLE? If so, the speed is cut in half, since there is only one cable, the cable can only read OR write at any moment, and the data\ncannot read, and be sent to the other CD immediately, which it " COULD " do if the 2 CD's were on DIFFERENT cables...\n\nBe aware that the "rated" speed of any CD is the fastest speed that the CD can burn --- *** IN ONLY ONE SPOT ON THE\nCD *** --- That means that in the tiny centre area of the CD, where the radius of the circle is the smallest, the CD can burn the dots at the fastest speed. As you go out farther on the CD, the actual speed of the track increases greatly, and on the outmost last 1.4 inch, I do not know of a single CD burner that can burn at the " ADVERTISED " speed. ( So in "fact " no CD burner at all burns at the\nhighest speed listed  ). A good CD burner will burn at 80 times. If you take a laser speed reader and look at any CD, you will see the speed decrease as the burner head moves away from the center...\n \n SO, if you have a 4 Giga Hertz computer, with 2 GigaBytes of ram, and an 80 X Speed Burner, and use Serial ATA 10,000\nRPM harddrives, and have each CD machine on a separate ATA 80 pin cable as a MASTER, then you can burn quite fast, with\nfew errors appearing immediately...\n\n I agree with the answer that a slower burn is a more reliable, better burn, with less problems. If you have\na collection of files from differnt harddrives and CD's,\n-- put them in a SINGLE FOLDER, and burn the contents of the \nnew folder, since everything there will be in the same\norder, in the same location, with no hiccups since  the computer does not have to change devices to read the data. \n\n  If you can, try to arrange your cables to the CD's so that\nthe Burner is NOT on the same cable as the harddrive or the\nother CD you might be gathering data from.\n\n Two people with exactly the same harddrive, CD reader, and CD burner, can have totally different success in burning CD's at any given speed. If the first person has the harddrive on a ATA cable, with the CDs as Masters on\n2 differnt cables, while the second person has the\nharddrive and the CD burner on the same cable, as Master and Slave,\nthe second person will not be able to burn as fast without having problems....\n\nI generally burn at 1/2 the speed of the rated machine listing. If the burner is rated at 48, I aim for 24, and if\nI know WHERE THE DATA IS COMMING FROM, ie., from a slower device, the network, or scattered folders, I burn even slower. It does make a differnce. If I am forced to gather\nthe data I am burning from the SAME CABLE.... ( a master or slave on the same cable as the burner ) I burn even slower\nagain... After a while you get a good " feel " for where you can put the speed settings, on each machine...\n I have hundreds of BAD CD burns. Live and learn. There are hundreds of exceptions to each rule, and different software\nprograms for burning, and different manufacters of CD's, readers, burners,
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Although it is not likely the desired solution, but if you slow down the burning process by at least one step (from 32x to 16x or from 16x to 8x etc) will eliminate this problem.\n\nMake sure you have the latest firmware and driver for your cd burner.  Also make sure you have the latest update of your burning software and keep other processes and programs to a minimum while burning.  As a last resort, try a different brand or type of media.\n\nGood Luck!\n\nMikeC