Stupid MAC question

[booker]

Ok... on PT 7.1LE on the Mac, I bounced a mix down to a wav file. Then, I put the wave file into a burn file so I could make a cd. It did. But I can't get any cd player to play it. They all come up as "no disc". The Mac will open and play it. What can I do? I just want to be able to play the dang song on a cd player.

[matto]

Stupid question to try to answer your "stupid" question: You're sure you made an audio CD, not a data one, correct? Cause obviously a CD player couldn't read a Data CD, it has to be "Redbook" audio.

[sgs4u]

Quote:Ok... on PT 7.1LE on the Mac, I bounced a mix down to a wav file. Then, I put the wave file into a burn file so I could make a cd. It did. But I can't get any cd player to play it. They all come up as "no disc". The Mac will open and play it. What can I do? I just want to be able to play the dang song on a cd player.did you burn the CD with Toast, or Itunes? that would explain why your Mac plays it, but nothing else. I am also a proud Mac owner. PC's are for wannabees and that was a wannabee joke!I think you've may have burned your disk as a WAV data fileTry to burn another one instead as an AIFF file

[booker]

You may be right steve. It says wav. but maybe its data.

[sgs4u]

Quote:I'm not a mac user, but here are two ideas. You may have burned it as a data disc as mentioned above, and some older home and car CD players are not good at handling CD-Rs or CD-RWs. What program did ya use? that's the key. It'll tell you what kind of file you burned. I've just found burning audio CD's as AIFF's always works. There is likely an icon asking you what kind of CD you wanna burn. Answer audio CD(or AIFF), not Wav.g'luck

[nickbatzdorf]

Sometimes discs just don't play on other machines. The solution can be to try it again, to use different media, or to use a different burner if that's an option.

[aubreyz]

Quote:Ok... on PT 7.1LE on the Mac, I bounced a mix down to a wav file. Then, I put the wave file into a burn file so I could make a cd. It did. But I can't get any cd player to play it. They all come up as "no disc". The Mac will open and play it. What can I do? I just want to be able to play the dang song on a cd player.Everyone is providing good answers, but it may be hard to understand. Because you said "I put the wave file into a burn file so I could make a cd. It did."-- it leads me to believe you missed a step or two along the way.Instead of guessing what you did, here's what to do:1. Bounce your mix to aiff format - 44.1k 16bit2. Open iTunes. Create a new playlist (the + sign lower left) and name it. (for best quality make sure your iTunes advanced preferences are set to import in aiff format.3. Open a finder window, locate your file and drag it into the iTunes playlist --- you can drag as many as can fit on a CD, and reorder however you like.4. Click burn disk (icon on top or bottom depending on iTunes version). Insert a blank cd. Check the taxi forum for new posts... and ding -- redbook CD compatible in most players (some older units have trouble with home made burns).There are better programs of course for serious CD creation, but work mixes, demos, etc... iTunes works great.PS--- A little workflow tip - I never bounce to disk in Protools, but prefer to create an audio track to print mixes to. That way you have a region you can trim or add fades to (if you fade you must select and consolidate the region before exporting--Shift+Command+3). Once happy with it, name the region, select it and do shift+command+k-- That brings up an export region as file menu - choose your options and destination and PT will export the file MUCH faster than a bounce -- need an mp3 too? Same thing. Much easier and faster in the long run to print a mix and then export different file types.Setting up the audio channel--If you are using an Aux input as a "Main Bus" before the master fader, you can control click to add another output bus, and then route that buss to the in of the audio track (just make sure the output of that audio track is not routed to the same main output path).This may be clear as mud-- but will save you tons of time in the long run.Aub

[neuphoria]

aub's exactly right. drag the track/file into an iTunes playlist folder (title of your song), click that folder, and then click burn disc. (if you don't do it that way it will read as a data disc by cd players.)

[kouly]

I see all the Mac experts have chimed in. It sounds like you just tried to burn your wave file to disc in the Finder. This is probably what confused you. Since when you open the disc you see a wav file but the Finder is always going to burn a data CD. (Not compatible with CD players)Just use the good advice above about using iTunes or a dedicated program like Toast.

[booker]

All great advice. I'll try it tonight. When I had PT on a PC, I could bounce to disc on PT and burn the cd from there, no problem. The file plays on quicktime on the mac, but it won't open on the PC, so... maybe it is a data file. I burned a copy as an AIFF, but again, it doesn't play after I put it in a burn file and burn the cd. I haven't tried dragging it over to itunes. My bigggest problem with the itunes thingy is that all my songs are on my pc for itunes, and it won't let me download just one song off the Mac itunes without transfering all my purchased songs to the mac.