[ohjay]

Forgive me I'm a little computer illiterate....

I have been burning audio cds with adaptec easy cd creator 4 for a while now, and all of the sudden I've run into some weird problems.
Normally i would just open creator, click on audio cd, drag my MP3 files down, click create cd, have a nice day..... but a little while ago, my computer stopped recognizing my MP3s as valid audio files... when i open my music file, they do not even show in the creator windows, only .wav files.... now I know how to convert mp3's to wav's, but that is a painful waste of time. Does anyone know what may have happened?? I can't find the easy cd creator disc, so I cant reinstall. Help, please. Thanks again.

 

[pentacle]

Have you recently removed any audio programs? Maybe some of your defaults were reset. Whatever you do, don't convert all of your mp3s to .wavs .. wavs take up a lot more space.
One other thing you might try since you are using adaptec is the "Direct CD" software. I am fairly certain that you can drag and drop music files and have a playable cd. By running this program, you format the cd so that you can drag (or copy) files from one location (go to my computer and open a window and go to the folder that has your music in it) and put them on the cd in the cd rw drive (by opening a second window, clicking on my computer and then the drive letter of your cd-rw (most often "E").

My best advice is not to convert all of your mp3s to wavs. Before you do that you could install another cd creator and uninstall adaptec and see if that corrects everything

 

[ohjay]

I did recently delete Kaaza... do you think that would have any effect?

What I've been doing in the meantime is making a playlist on winamp, and converting just those 18 or so mp3s into wavs, burning the cd, then deleting the wavs

Don't mp3s have better quality sound though??

help
please
thanks

 

[kiwiguy]

"Don't mp3s have better quality sound though???

No.
An MP3 file format is a compressed version of the .wav file.
Quality is lost.
When its re-expanded back to a .wav file to play in a normal stereo, the quality is not recovered, its gone for good.

 

[Elvandil]

Try reinstalling Easy CD. Kazaa brings with it a few crappy, poorly-written codecs and makes changes to registry keys related to sound files.