mp3 cd burning problems

[wurm]

Okay, chastise away.

Last week I reserved the new Stephen King book 11-22-63 (audiobook version) from the local library, figuring I would be about 100th in the queue and that I might get to listen to it in 2014 or so. Well, I got the call yesterday that it was ready to be picked up, so my wife stopped by to get it today. In typical King fashion, it's 30+ hours of material on three mp3 CDs.

I'm still only halfway through my present book, so rather than hang onto this new one for weeks and keep renewing it, I figured I'd make copies of the CDs so I could listen in a few weeks or so. So I fired up Toast and after what appeared to be successful burns (it seemed to take the right amount of time to burn, filling the cache, burning and finishing), I went to check the new CDs and they're showing up on my desktop as empty. Not blank, mind you, because I can't burn anything else on them, but there is 0KB of stuff on there. A single CD shows up in the Finder as two Untitled CDs - each showing "0 items - 735.6 MB available". Looking at the physical disc, it appears that something has been burned onto it. I've tried this twice now, so I have six new coasters.

Did I screw something up or is this some kind of new copy protection I'm encountering?

[M>B>]

I would use the disk copy option in Toast to clone the disks.

[wurm]

That's the way I did the first set of coasters. After that failed, I tried the mp3 CD way, also to no avail.

[hal]

Can you copy the mp3s to your hard drive? If so, do so and burn from there. If you can't then you KNOW something is blocking you...

[Buzz]

chastization continued...

maybe rip the CD's into iTunes, and then burn your backup discs from there?

That's what I do so I can listen to the audiobooks in the car and not worry about the CD's getting borked.

Once in iTunes, I can then rename the tracks/chapters to be more readily recognized... it seems a lot of audiobooks have strange titling after importing, so there's actually a chance to improve the overall experience w/ the backup; especially so if your player displays titles.


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[wurm]

hal and Buzz, I'm sure either of those ways will work, and I'll probably end up doing that. It just seemed odd that it would have appeared to have copied, based on the time it took and the prompts I received, yet nothing was there.

Thanks.

[Buzz]

I tried copying, too, and after a couple of coasters, started ripping & editing the titles, and never looked back. Nice thing about editing is ability to do batch process.

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[wurm]

So on a whim this morning, I grabbed the "coasters" out of the wastebasket and popped them in my car CD player. All but one played fine. Still don't know why they don't show up on my iMac, but I don't care, as I'll be listening to them in my car anyway. Strange.

Ah, just noticed something. There's some funky stuff on the original (see pic), and I vaguely recall some odd prompt from Toast asking if I wanted to copy some file or create a new one using Toast. I think I just hit "enter" for the default, so that may be what caused the issue.