Preparing tracks to burn music-cd takes forever

Zebulon · Post by **Zebulon** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 6:01 am

When burning mp3's to audio-cd MM first prepares all tracks before starting the actual burning. This can take up to 8 minutes! When using Nero this only takes a few seconds and the whole cd has finished burning a long time before MM is done preparing.
Why is MM so much slower? Is it a decoder problem or somethig? Is there something that can be done to speed up the preparing process?
I'd really like to use MM to burn my music but at this time it's just to slow

Zebulon

rongin3 · Post by **rongin3** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:19 am

It is the same slow speed on my system.

Post by **jiri** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:35 am

The thing is that MM firstly prepares all audio samples and only burns when all is precisely calculated. For example, length of some audio tracks can only be calculated after they are fully processed, the time you usually see in audio applications is only an approximation that isn't necessarily correct. This way you can be sure that tracks are burned precisely in MM. That said, we'll possibly include direct burning mode in some of the next versions too.

Jiri

Zebulon · Post by **Zebulon** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:34 pm

jiri wrote:The thing is that MM firstly prepares all audio samples and only burns when all is precisely calculated. For example, length of some audio tracks can only be calculated after they are fully processed, the time you usually see in audio applications is only an approximation that isn't necessarily correct. This way you can be sure that tracks are burned precisely in MM

Ok. But is this really necessary? Nero has done this on-the-fly for years and it's been working just fine without any problems. I think the way MM prepares audio tracks is a bit redundant.

jiri wrote:That said, we'll possibly include direct burning mode in some of the next versions too.

Thanks for giving me hope

This is on the top of my wishlist. And I'm guessing I'm not alone on this one.
I hope it will be included soon. Until then Nero continues to be my number 1 music burner.

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 6:16 pm

My 2 cents worth...

I only burn one or two CD's a month, I don't really care if it takes an extra 10 minutes or not. I must get an MP3 player for my car, then I'd not need a burner at all.

I'm happy for MM to make sure everything is done right.

But I certainly would not be happy if I was burning lots of CDs in a short period of time.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:08 pm

I too really want to have the option to burn on the fly like Nero does. MM uses way to much time preparing tracks before burning.
Mp3 burning would be nice too.
Is any of the above by any chance in the making?

judas · Post by **judas** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:19 pm

Its been a while and no comments about it...I dont burn many audio CDs anyway...but i had to burn a few for a friend...and its really uncomfortable to do so in MM...it takes forever preparing the tracks, so I reaaallly back this proposal up...

Thank you...

paddo · Post by **paddo** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:37 pm

i understand it might take a moment to prepare an mp3 file for burning to an audio cd.. but when you are burning the audio cd from wav files.. .??? what needs to be done ?

it would be great if this 'preparing tracks' time could be eliminated or reduced.. other programs e.g. wavelab soundforge etc.. it is nearly instantaneous.. that would be fabulous..

i'm new to mm and love it so far - this is a small gripe -but great if it could be fixed..

thx
p

vonster · Post by **vonster** » Sat May 06, 2006 1:04 pm

Agreed, part of the value of MM is being able to work with your audio and manage it quickly - this should include burning

Its way too tedious and the extra time is totally unnessessary imo, if other programs can just burn things right to the disk so can MM .... currently its annoying to have to workaround this by burning with something else ..

thanks guys ...

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Zebulon · Post by **Zebulon** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:23 pm

jiri wrote:The thing is that MM firstly prepares all audio samples and only burns when all is precisely calculated. For example, length of some audio tracks can only be calculated after they are fully processed, the time you usually see in audio applications is only an approximation that isn't necessarily correct. This way you can be sure that tracks are burned precisely in MM. That said, we'll possibly include direct burning mode in some of the next versions too.

Jiri

We are now at version 2.5.3 and direct burning mode is still not included. Why? How much longer do we have to use Nero or other burning apps to burn music?

Post by **jiri** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:55 pm

This is currently in development and will be included in the next major version.

Jiri

Teknojnky · Post by **Teknojnky** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 7:57 pm

Jiri, as I understand it, the Nero Burning engine is available for 3rd party use if nero is installed, why not make it an option to have MM use it where possible.

Post by **jiri** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 6:28 am

It would be possible, but we rather spend our time on other issues. Our burning engine works generally very well (except possibly for some exotic hardware or some glitches discovered in past versions) and so this would only double the amount of work needed. That said, maybe we'll consider it for some future versions...

Jiri

Jruder · Post by **Jruder** » Mon May 21, 2007 12:59 pm

Just a update for anybody searching the forum...I saved a playlist in 2.5 and imported it into 3.0 alpha and the direct buring option is working correctly. It allows the burn to start right away.

Thanks guys...

Preparing tracks to burn music-cd takes forever

Preparing tracks to burn music-cd takes forever

burning wavs - what is 'prepare tracks' doign ? too long..

direct buring in 3.0