Both my PC and laptop has DVD-RW drive which I can use it to burn mp3 to audio cd. I usually use my laptop to burn and never had any problems with it.
Suddenly, one fine day I wanted to burn my mp3s to audio CD to listen in my car. Everything went as normal but when I played the audio cd in my car’s player, a few songs had the skipping problem. It doesn’t skip the whole song, but it skipped a couple of second. I thought the audio CD might be scratched. I took out the CD and the back layer looked perfect. I poped in a different audio CD, and it played fine. Meaning, it can’t be my car’s audio player.
Then I tested the CD on my Hi-Fi set at home and also my laptop and computer. All 3 had the same audio skipping problems for a few second at the same track. Ok, it’s quite obvious at that time it’s the audio CD’s problem.
I took out a new CD-R and burned the mp3 to audio cd at the slowest speed. Tried it again, and still had the same audio skipping problem. I listened to the MP3 on my laptop and the whole track played perfectly.
I got a shocked and thought that it might be the problem with my laptop’s DVD-RW drive.
So test whether the problem is on my laptop’s DVD-RW drive, I tried burning the same mp3 on my PC’s DVD-RW drive.
Installed the latest Nero7, burned the same mp3 at the slowest speed and still had that audio skipping problem!
It’s getting frustrating because I am wasting a lot of CD-Rs and they are not the cheap type. I usually buy the high quality CD-R Imation so it can play on any player. But then, it could be that batch of CD-Rs that is causing the problem. I took out a usable CD-RW and burn the mp3 to audio cd, problem still exist.
I thought to myself that it might be the mp3 problem. Perhaps the person who converted from audio cd to mp3 didn’t do a good job. So I tried burning other mp3 to audio CD on my laptop. SH*T! Some of the tracks skipped for a few second!
Now I am able to rule out that it’s not my DVD-RW drive, CD-R or CD-RW media disc, or or my car’s audio player. Again, I gave it a thought and thinking it might be the operating system’s problem. I reinstalled a fresh clean Microsoft Windows XP Professional on my computer and immediately installed the latest Nero7 without installing anything else. If I still have audio cd skipping problem this time, it’s definately Nero7 that is causing it. Right on the money, the new audio cd still skips!
I remembered that when I was using the old Nero 6, I never had any problems in burning from mp3 to audio CD.
So I uninstalled Nero7 using Nero General Clean Tool, and installed Nero 6. This time I burn the same mp3 on the same batch of CD-R on my computer, NO MORE audio skipping problem! I am still not convinced why the latest Nero 7 is causing this problem! I did another test which is uninstalled Nero 7 on my computer, installed Nero 6, and tried burning mp3 to audio CD on my PC. Tested the audio CD and certified no problem!
Solution to audio cd problem when burning from mp3 to audio CD, switch back to the latest Nero 6.
Another temporary solution is, to use Nero 6′s latest mp3PRO.dll file on Nero 7. I will show you how to do it step-by-step.
1. Download the latest Nero 7.2.0.3b
2. Download Nero 6 latest mp3PRO.dll
3. Extract the downloaded mp3PRO.zip and you will get the file mp3PRO.dll version 2.0.4.8
4. Copy mp3PRO.dll to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\AudioPlugins (Depending where is your Program Files, just change the drive C:\)
5. You can either overwrite the file, or backup the Nero7 mp3PRO.dll by renaming it to mp3PRO.bak
Now you should be able to burn mp3 to Audio CD using Nero 7 without having the audio skipping problem.