Thursday, April 25, 2002

Growling

Okay, I am having a very weird problem with my CD burner. I've been in high production mode this week, making multiple copies of the new mix to take to Florida tomorrow. Well, it's a good thing I decided to test them before I went...

On maybe 4 different copies of this disc, everything is perfect except one song is dropped off the playlist. Well, it's not actually dropped. It's there, but it's just an empty track. Like, it looks like it's playing, but nothing's coming out of the speakers.

The even stranger thing is that it doesn't always happen on the same track. Sometimes it's track three, sometimes track five, sometimes track 17. How weird is that? Sure, I've had situations before where a track got corrupted and I had to start over, and once I even had every track on a playlist get corrupted after I'd made many, many copies of one of those World in My Head mixes. But this just seems so random.

[Edited: I just found the same problem on a different CD I burned this week, too. So it's not just this particular playlist.]

So I shut everything down and restarted. And I'm trying to remember not to do anything else on the computer while I'm burning (with this big hard drive it's not like before, when I couldn't do anything else). Luckily, several of the copies I made of this worked just fine. I think I have enough, or maybe I just need one more.

Anything else I should try?