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Need help with problem burning cd's with Mac G4

Ok, I'm new to burning cd's and I'm having problems with audible dropouts in cd's I'm burning. There are numerous short audible dropouts at random intervals in cd's assembled from a playlist. I have a new 12" G4 Mac Powerbook, stock 256 ram, with Superdrive. I'm importing the cd tracks to Itunes, then ripping with the internal drive onto Memorex cd-r media. This is a really new computer and it isn't loaded with data intensive files. Do I need more memory, configuration changes, external hard drive, external burner or what? Thanks, Will.
photon46
agaffer
256 posts
 
Are you using Panther 10.3.2? I burn CDs and DVDs on my Mac using itunes and idvd all the time and have never ran into a problem. When using idvd I work in other programs during the burn time, using itunes it is so fast that I don't have time to work in other programs. I used Toast when I was using Os9 but haven't seen any need to get the updated version for Os 10.
gunbei
2,327 posts
 
Agaffe brings up an interesting point.

The failed DVD burns I experienced were data disks at work in OS9. We're now working under 10.3.3 and using Toast 5.2.3.

At home I'm using 10.3.3 and I've never had a problem with Toast 6 or burning directly from iDVD.

Photon, you may want to move to Panther. Processing power is a consideration when burning, but under OSX multi-tasking is handled better and may be a more stable environment for Toast and iDVD.

Good luck!
budrew
467 posts
 
I know in iTunes having Error Correction turned on can can this same issue of dropouts. Don't know if Toast has a similar feature.
unclejeff
1,313 posts
 
I very much agree with using the Toast Software. It is fun and very user friendly.

It works great on the McIntosh but sometimes has problems with PC, especially if you are running Windows 98.
photon46 OP
1,082 posts
 
Again, thanks to all. Yes I'm running Panther 10.3.3. This morning, I tried burning a cd at 2x speed, rather than the preset default which is several times faster. The same playlist which had numerous audible dropouts now sounds error free. While looking around controls/settings in Itunes, I noticed that the factory default turns error correction during import off in order to speed this process up. I turned error correction on and will burn some tests to see how this affects things.
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