User Guide

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RECORDING, RIPPING, AND BURNING CHP. 9

Burning CDs

Sound Forge allows you to write audio to CD if your system is configured with a supported CD-R/RW drive

and the necessary drivers. Sound Forge burns CDs using the track-at-once method, meaning that additional

tracks can be added to the CD over a period of time. Once all desired tracks are added, you must close the

CD before it can be played in a consumer CD player. However, once you have closed a CD, you can no

longer add tracks to it.

Correcting the sample rate for CD burning

Sample rates deviating from 44,100 Hz cause CD track lengths to be miscalculated. When attempting to

write a file to CD that deviates from the 44,100 Hz sample rate, Sound Forge prompts you to change the

sample rate. Selecting

Ye s automatically resamples audio to 44,100 Hz.

In addition, you can use the

Resample tool to change the sample rate of a file prior to burning the CD. For

more information, see Resample on page 161.

Writing mono tracks to a CD

If you attempt to write mono audio tracks to a CD, Sound Forge prompts you to create a stereo file by

copying the mono data to both channels.

Adding tracks to a CD

You should always save your audio files prior to writing them to CD.

From the Tools menu, choose Burn CD. The Burn CD dialog displays the length of the current audio file

and the amount of time remaining on the CD currently in the CD-R/RW.

Note:

If there is no CD in the drive, only the

Cancel button is available in this dialog. If you

insert a disc after this dialog appears, it takes a

moment for Sound Forge to recognize the disc

and make all options available.

Burn CD dialog