Burn CD Help

Burning CDs

To create CDs assembled from clips in your music collection, insert a blank CD-R disc into your CD-R drive and follow the instructions below.

1. Select the type of CD you want to create.

   • Selecting Audio will create a CD that you can play in a standard audio CD player.
     

   • To create a CD of MP3 or RealAudio files, select Data.
    

2. Click Add Clips and select the clips you wish to add to the CD. As you select clips, your RealOne Player will show you the amount of recording time you have used so far and the remaining free time left on the disc.
   

3. Click Burn CD to create your custom CD. The Status bar will display the progress of the creation process.

Note:

When you create an Audio CD, the Add Clips command burns audio tracks onto the CD-R disk. When you create a Data CD, the Add Clips command burns data files (MP3# or RealAudio) onto the CD-R disk.

Adjusting CD-R settings

To adjust CD-R settings, click Configure on the lower left of the command bar. The Configure window will appear with the following settings:

CD-R drive	Selects target CD-R. (If you have multiple CD-R drives, you can select which drive to use.)
Write speed	Selects write speed. Depending on the capabilities of your CD-R software, you can change the speed at which a CD is created. The options are relative. (2x is twice as fast as 1x)
Burn type	Selects between Audio and Data burns.
Volume equalization	Automatically adjusts to a common level, the volume of tracks that will be burned onto a custom Audio CD. This will eliminate the need to readjust the volume setting between tracks when you play back your custom CD. This is a Plus CD-R feature.
Music sub-folders (Advanced Options)	Specifies how to organize your clips on a custom Data CD. For instance, if you select Create folder by Artist-Album, RealOne Player will place your clips into a two level folder structure; organized first by artist, and second by subfolders named by album. The following options are Plus CD-R features. Create folders based on: Create folder named:
Clip conversion (Advanced Options)	Specifies the encoding format to which RealOne will convert your selected clips before burning them to a custom Data CD. (Either MP3 or RealAudio.) Clips will be converted at a a Comparable Bit Rate (closest match or better). Clips that are already in the specified format will be copied as is.

Accessing Plus CD-R features

If you already have either Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum or Roxio SoundStream installed on your system, you have access to Plus CD-R features. If you purchase the Easy CD Creator Plus product from a site such as Real.com’s Accessories Zone, you will have access to Plus CD-R features.

Plus features consist of the following:

• Faster write speed
  

• Volume equalization for audio burning
  
• Additional folder creation options
  
• Ability to add more tracks to previously burned CDs (see Finalizing Audio CD-Rs and Finalizing Data CD-Rs)

Finalizing Audio CD-Rs

If you have Plus CD-R features, you have the option of leaving the CD “open” after an audio burning session and adding more clips to it at a later time. Each time you finish burning tracks, a message will appear asking whether you want to finalize the CD. If you select Yes, the CD will be finalized so it can be played in a standard audio CD player, but you will not be able to add more clips to it later. If you select No, you can add more clips to the CD at a later time, but you will not be able to play the CD until it has been finalized.

If you leave a CD open and decide you want to finalize it without adding any more clips to it, follow the instructions below:

1. Insert the CD into your CD-R drive.
   

2. Click Finalize and answer Yes. The finalizing process will take a few minutes.

Note:

The Finalize command will only appear if you have Plus CD-R features.

Finalizing Data CD-Rs

If you have Plus CD-R features, you can add more clips to a previously created Data CD, up to the storage capacity of the CD. Unlike audio CDs, there is no need to explicitly finalize data CDs before you can play them in your CD player.

Note:

When you burn a Data CD, 20 Meg of CD-R disk space is allocated to file overhead and unavailable for use. Each time you add additional clips (a Plus CD-R feature), an additional 14 Meg of CD-R disk space is allocated for overhead.

Troubleshooting

After installation of Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum, audio and data burning seem to work but produce unusable CDs

Uninstall Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum as follows:

1. Click on the "Start" button on your toolbar
   

2. Select "Settings" menu item
   
3. Select "Control Panel" menu item
   
4. Double click on "Add/Remove Programs"
   
5. Scroll through list as necessary to find and select "Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum"
   
6. Click on the "Add/Remove..." button to initiate uninstallation
   
When uninstallation is complete, restart your machine as follows:

1. Click on the "Start" button
   

2. Select "Shut down" menu item
   
3. Choose "Shut down" button
   
4. Press OK
   
After your machine restarts, reinstall Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum as follows:

1. Insert your original Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum CD into your CDROM drive to initiate installation
   

2. Follow the instructions of the product installer