Almost random sound fade burning audio CD

[Bandolero]

Hello,

I'm using MM 2.54.978 Gold Lifetime (I also tried 2.55 RC3 with same problem)

This started a few months back, I have a feeling it started when I moved to Nero 7 Enhanced but I can't be sure.

The CD burns with no errors but at some "random timestamp" the audio is faded to mute and back to normal in about a second. This I first thought was caused by corrupted MP3s so I did not really do any troubleshooting. But now I noticed this is happening on every CD I burn.

I checked the MP3 and they do not have that fade. This is what I have done so far:

- I switched the order of songs to see if the problem moves with the song. No, the problem stayed with the track 11 at 2 min 57 secs, regardless of the song.

- I figured out the above is at 37 min 55 secs in the CD. I pulled another CD I burned a couple of months back and the "fade" is there too at exactly 37 min 55 secs.

There are about 4 fades in the CD but I thought it may be important to mention that these two CDs have the same problem at the same place and their content is TOTALLY different.

I tried with/without volume leveling and the fade moved to another part
I tried with/without cd-text and again the fade moved to another part

I tried uninstalling, removing and cleaning the reg of any MM stuff and still have the problem.

I completelly uninstalled Nero (Clean tools) and installed it again without the Burn Plug-in and no change

I tried 3 different brands of CDs

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I also searched here for "burn gap mute fade" but I found no other relevant information.

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Does anyone have any ideas of what could be causing this problem?

Windows XP Prof SP2 fully updated
400 GB HD
2 GB Memory
Plextor DVDR PX-716A - Firmware 1.07 - 8MB Buffer - DMA On

[Lowlander]

That's very weird. Does this problem only occur with MediaMonkey or do other burning application exhibit issues as well?

[Bandolero]

That's very weird. Does this problem only occur with MediaMonkey or do other burning application exhibit issues as well?

I saved the list of songs to an m3u file and burned a CD using Nero Express and it does NOT have these fades.

[Bandolero]

Admin could you please move this thread to the Need Help section?

Maybe someone there can help.

[Peke]

Done

[Bandolero]

Thanks Admin,

Ok here is the latest, I did a CLEAN XP install... still same problem even if Media Monkey is the only installed app.

oh well