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I am just learning Ableton Live 7 and have a beginner's question. I need to know how to burn a song created in LIve to a disc that can be played on a CD player. I have read the manual about rendering and tried rendering in both WAV and AIFF. Is there something else I need to do after this to make it playable.

Thanks for your help in advance.

pjblues wrote:I am just learning Ableton Live 7 and have a beginner's question. I need to know how to burn a song created in LIve to a disc that can be played on a CD player. I have read the manual about rendering and tried rendering in both WAV and AIFF. Is there something else I need to do after this to make it playable.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Make sure your Export Audio/Video settings are:

Rendered Track: Master
File Type: Wav
Sample Rate: 44100
Bit Depth: 16

and then off course, burn your audio file on cd as an audio cd, not a cd-rom. but you knew that already, right?

...and then use a CD authoring (Nero, Toast, iTunes) app to actually burn that as an audio CD.

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Damn, Simon!

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Thanks folks for the help. So a WAV at 16 bit? Burn as a CD.

Lo-Fi Massahkah wrote:Damn, Simon!

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And to think I was pondering for a long time if the phrasing was right enough.

I must really out of whack. I setup the sequence using 16 bit wave and then went to I Tunes, put a disc in and dragged the song over to the blank disc. I then opened the disc and hit "burn CD". I made sure my I Tunes was set to burn a Audio CD.

It does not play in a CD player. Am I doing something wrong or just totally messed up?

Thanks.

Did you try and play the song in iTunes before burning? Are you sure you haven't accidentally muted the master channel in Live or something similar? Can you open the file in a wave editor, or import it back into Live to make sure there is audio there?

Did you burn other files before using iTunes? Did this work normally?

I played it in I Tunes. In fact I am doing it now. Secondly I dragged it into Logic Pro 8 and played it as a single track. It plays fine. I must be doing something wrong that is so simple I am overlooking it. I am checking everything.

I will try again to burn a wav at 44.1 16 bit?

Hi, I've just had exactly this issue.. But, it's easy to sort out..

Ok.. In iTunes you must set your prefs .. Advanced~Burning~the dropdown options on preferred speed, you should lower.. I put mine on X8 instead of maximum speed..

The Lower burn time allows the CD to be burnt with deeper pits. I tried it and now it works OK

Give it a shot..

Peace

Hd

PJ-

This is how I burn a CD in iTunes:

1) I create a new Playlist

2) I drag and drop the songs I want on the CD onto the Playlist.

3) I put a blank CD-R into my drive.

4) If Finder opens (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't ) then I feel confused for a moment and click OK. Clicking OK puts a CD-R icon on my desktop named Untitled CD.

5) Back in iTunes I click the Burn Disc button at the lower right corner of iTunes' interface.

6) Then iTunes burns an audio CD.

In older versions of iTunes there used to be this cool looking nuclear symbol the you had to click on, and it would start spinning and stuff. I've got iTunes 7.7 now and it doesn't appear to do that anymore.

heavensdaw wrote: The Lower burn time allows the CD to be burnt with deeper pits.

I spoke to a friend today, he was saying that it's not that the pits are burnt deeper, but when you burn at slower speeds the 'pits' are better defined.. Maybe someone will chip in here..

I had exactly the same problem as the OP, but just through lowering the burn speed, so far it seems to have done the trick.

Hd