Discrepency Between Total Times In Explorer & Burn Windows

[Son of Spam]

I'm trying to burn a CDR. As you can see by the image below, the MediaMonkey explorer window shows the total time of my CD playlist to be 1:19:42.

But when I go through the Burn setup process, the total time shows 1:20:04. As such, I can't burn the disc as is.

I tried refreshing the view window; I've shutdown MM and restarted it, to no avail. What's going on?

[Samuel_LB]

Total time will be the same if in Disc Burn Wizard, if you use Write Method Disc-at-once (no gaps).

If you use Track-at-once it will add 2 seconds gap between each track.

[Son of Spam]

Total time will be the same if in Disc Burn Wizard, if you use Write Method Disc-at-once (no gaps).

If you use Track-at-once it will add 2 seconds gap between each track.

Thanks, Samuel. But I AM using Disc-At-Once.

For some reason, it refuses to allow the proper total time. I've even shortened some of my songs by 1 or 2 seconds just to get it under the 120:00 limit, but to no avail.

It still shows a full disc, when I clearly have several seconds lee-way to play with.

[rovingcowboy]

allow 2 minutes for index files to have room to be burned. the cdr index file is what tells the audio player where the file is on the list and if you have cdtext it adds that in too.

so you need to lose 2 minutes of space just to make sure there is room enough for the index.

also export the playlist to m3u file. open it in another program see what it says the size is in that program.
just wondering if it is something monkey is doing or if now windows is messing with monkey.?

i never get the same size reported on the cdr's or the cdrw's that is reported by windows. and that is also the same with burning data disks with another program the files are reported at less size then they are when the program puts them on the disk. so windows does something but i have not figured it out yet. more likely won't figure it out either so just leave the 2 minutes of room to be safe.

[chrisjj]

> allow 2 minutes for index files to have room to be burned.

That implies the wizard's total time figure is erroneously including index space. If anyone can confirm, please do.