Does anybody know how to make WMP burn to an external CD/DVD drive?

[FunkyMonkee]

[Astarlessnightsky]

You should be able to select the cdrom/dvdrom drive.

something like F:// (Toshiba External Drive) Or whatever Letter and type you got

[FunkyMonkee]

I know that and you know that but the computers don't seem to know that!

[Astarlessnightsky]

weird. Have you checked if there is a driver missing, driver update necessary?

[FunkyMonkee]

No, never thought of that but, it has no problem playing CD's and DVD's.

[SnackTime]

It should be as easy as dragging and dropping. Did the drive come with software?

[FunkyMonkee]

Yeah, it SHOULD be, but it's NOT. The computers only want to burn to the DVD drive installed in the computers! There SHOULD be a way to tell WMP to switch to the other drive but, on the laptop, I don't get that option and, on this one, it'll switch to one of the jump drives but NOT the external DVD drive.

[SnackTime]

Ah, I didn't know you had an internal DVD drive as well. Post your question on a tech site and you'll probably get your answer. Is there a reason you want to burn stuff to a DVD rather than something else?

[FunkyMonkee]

I wanna burn to CD-RW and the rip that to MP3 at 128kbps. WAV's take up way too much space.
Both computers have internals but, the laptop suddenly won't let me burn to CD. I put in a blank disc and it tells me it's not blank while telling me it IS black on WMP.
The DVD drive on this computer was fucked up pretty much from day one!! I'd put a disc in and push the drawer shut and it'd immediately open up again, immediately close, open, close and then MAYBE start playing the disc!! After a few months of this bullshit, I got tired of it playing this stupid game and SHOVED the drawer in and it hasn't worked since then and, for the past 10 years or so, has not been completely closed. Ir refuses to close any farther or to open at all!! So, I bought two externals.

[SnackTime]

Why not just get an external hard drive and don't mess with discs?

[FunkyMonkee]

I have several, just bought a new one 2 weeks ago. That doesn't allow me to convert WAV's to MP3's.

[SnackTime]

Veed. io will convert them for you.

[FunkyMonkee]

I tried Freac last night and it was a huge fucking mess! and a great waste of time!! The first time, they all came out with the same title and were 600-some kbps. I spent at least 15:00 trying to figure out a way to correct all of that and then spent at least another half an hour sorting it all out and tried again. This time, it LOOKED like it did the job when I first opened the folder they went to but, suddenly, everything changed and got all mixed up and no two tracks were the same kbps!

[SnackTime]

What are these wav files?

[FunkyMonkee]

Basically, as far as I know, that's what each track of a CD consists of. When I burn a recording project to a CD, it becomes a series of WAV files. A full CD's worth takes up just under 1 GB of hard drive space. When the CD's tracks are reduced to MP3's, the whole album takes up WAY less space!! Around 75 or 80MB for about an hour and 20 minutes worth. So, when I load up a 2GB SD card with them, I can put at least 45 albums onto just one card about the size of my thumbnail. That's 36 hours of music. It'd take just under 21 days to play my entire Tangerine Dream collection non-stop. So, I'd probably need 16 SD cards to put them all on.

[strateguy632]

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