hi, i am a newbie to this board.

i have been burning cd's for a while now.
i have had this problem before, with no resolve so i thought maybe
someone here could help me really solve it this time.

most cd's i do have no problems at all with my process below but ...
occassionally i have a cd that i rip that does ...

process i do ...
read source cd using audiograbber to get .wav files
use cdrcue sheet editor to generate .cue file with .wav file entries
then burn cue/wav files with alcohol ...
i use cd-r 700m ... the burner is teac 540e ...

THE problem is ...
sometimes a cd i burn will have the songs cut in the wrong places!!!!

i keep the .wav files on my pc and play them and they appear to be ok.
so they must have been ripped ok.

the cue file i generate is just made up of the .wav files ...
example ... below

TITLE "Let It Be"
PERFORMER "The Beatles"
FILE "G:\My Music\The Beatles\Let It Be\The Beatles - 01 - Two Of Us.wav" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TITLE "The Beatles - 01 - Two Of Us"
FILE "G:\My Music\The Beatles\Let It Be\The Beatles - 02 - Dig A Pony.wav" WAVE
TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TITLE "The Beatles - 02 - Dig A Pony"

doesn't appear to be anything wrong there

but using alcohol to burn a cd-r or a cd-rw and playing it on any cd player
has a problem. the songs are cut in the wrong places. example the 5th
track on the burnt cd-r starts with the 1st track song somewhere in the middle of it and many other songs are also messed up.

to solve this problem last time, i just took the .wav files directly into nero,
compiled my own cd-r and burnt the cd-r. that worked. but i would like to know what is going on here and what i could be doing wrong!!!

the drawback to using nero is that you don't get a cue file that you can easily use to burn a cd-r quickly. you have to load all the files and
go through the compile process each time. a cue sheet editor is so much faster and is easily generated using cdrcue sheet editor.

is there anything stored in .wav files that could cause this error.

please help
jetli2

Try CDRWin. It's old but it is still the best thing for burning BIN/CUE files.
Plus you get a great guide in the help file about all the possible properites of cue files.

Just use CDRWin to copy the disc, no need to make it harder.