Hi,
Using Windows Media 11 in XP SP3, after I burn a few mp3's
on a cd, then want to add some mp3s later [lots of space left
on the CD] I am having trouble getting this to work. Is this a bug
or just a secret menu I cant find. It spits out the CD and says
'insert a writable disk', when I drag another file into the 'burn
window'.

thx

itchy

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:28:26 -0700 (PDT), internaughtfull
<itchyneebanshee********.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>Using Windows Media 11 in XP SP3, after I burn a few mp3's
>on a cd, then want to add some mp3s later [lots of space left
>on the CD] I am having trouble getting this to work. Is this a bug
>or just a secret menu I cant find. It spits out the CD and says
>'insert a writable disk', when I drag another file into the 'burn
>window'.

I think media player (or rather the underlying IMAPI CD burning
service in XP) finalises the CD after its written the tracks.

There's no way I know of to add more tracks to a finalised disk

Possibly a CD-RW (rewritable) disk might behave differently but it
could also require erasing the disk and re-burning all the tracks
again. CD blanks are so cheap I'd not worry too much about it.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2009
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

> I think media player (or rather the underlying IMAPI CD burning
> service in XP) finalises the CD after its written the tracks.
>
> There's no way I know of to add more tracks to a finalised disk
>

I thought a 'data disk' did not get finalized though. For example I
used
to use Roxio Easy CD and burn a few mp3s on a disk, then just pop
it in and add to it until it was full, no prob. But with [i cant
install
roxio on XP it wont take it] Media Player11 there seems to be a
problem. Anyway I might just get Nero and use that, thx for the input,

itchy