Having problems burning from media player onto lg portable disk drive

FloFlo

I have ripped tracks from an audio cd into window media player now I want to burn these tracks onto another blank disk. But it just keeps saying connect a burner and restart burning!

My portable re-writer is an lg lightscribe.

FloFlo

I have managed to burn the disk I want using nero essentials but not sure why windows media player will play cds, rip cds from the lg rewriter but won't recognise it for burning.

googler

I'm tempted to ask why you needed to go through the media player, unless you no longer had the CD available...?

FloFlo

Its a CD of Welsh songs for school I wanted to make copies for another 2 classes. I wanted to store a copy on my comp too so ripped it to windows media player and then expected to be able to burn it from there onto disk but it kept saying connect a burner and restart.

Also is there away to access music stored in the windows media player without opening windows media player. When I go into my music folder in my docs none of my music thats in windows media player shows.

googler

If you still have the original CD, use Nero to 'Copy Disc' without storing the disc permanently on your HDD.

For ripping and storing on your PC in future, download EAC and Burrrn, both for free.

Rip with EAC, store as .wav files. Burn those .wav files back to CD with Burrrn.

I'm not sure, but you might have been ending up with mp3 files when ripping thru Media Player. If you burn these back to CD, you'll have lost quality by encoding to mp3 and back. Ripping as .wav and burning back to CD from here will retain same quality.

FloFlo

Thanks, but I have other music in my media player that I probably don't have the cds for, any idea how to get it to recognise my lg rewriter?

googler

I only use Win MP for replaying mp3 files .... I think when you ripped them with MP it would store them as .wma files or .mp3 - anyone correct me, if not.

Search your HDD for files of these types, and I think you should be able to use Nero to burn them as an Audio CD. Don't merely copy/paste them to the CD, otherwise you'll end up with a 'data disc' containing the files, not a Compact Disc playable on a CD player.