Ipod nano--when burning CD, tunes sound "staticky"?

Question

I have a nano 2nd gen. When I burn tunes on CD-R, they sound staticky on replay and when I load them onto my other PC.

Also I need to back up my IPOD library. Any one have any software suggestions for doing this, as there are too many songs to only do it on CDs.

Answer 1

This is dependent upon many factors. The source of the music that you are burning to CD-R, the format you are encoding them to, the encoding settings and preferences and the means of playback.

i-tunes has as standard, settings to convert media to AAC formate when importing from CD's. It could be set to do this for export as well, you need to check many things relating to the above factors under edit->preferences. Here you can choose encoding formats and quality settings. Also the settings chosen will impact upon playback dependent upon what you are using to play the songs, if you are playing back with standalone audio equipment (stereo's, cd players) particularly if it's older equipment; they may not be able to play many of the compressed formats available like AAC or mp3, this is strange though because usually it just won't playback at all not sound staticky. The source of the music of course is important as if it is already low quality to begin with you may be compressing it even more resulting in noise that will be manifested as the static sound you heard.

For backup it's important whether or not you just want to store the files or be able to play them on standalone devices. Presumably it's just backup, there's a few options here. If you have a DVD burner on your computer than you can just burn much of the collection onto that, depending upon the size of the collection. Blank DVD's are usually 4.8GB in size, though you can get dual-layer ones of double that capacity though these are expensive and you need a special type of burner. There is also flash memory (like what your i-pod uses) which is quite cheap and 2-4 gigs in size generally. Finally if it's a very big collection of many gig's an external hard drive might be in order, which is a very good idea because they aren't TOO exensive and can store huge quantities of data and are very easy to use. Just plug it in and drag and drop the files. Hope this helps