Masterlink errors - Help!

[John Worthington]

I finished up a session and we downloaded all of the finished tracks from ProTools to the Masterlink via spdif. It's all 44.1, 16-bit data.

 

I went through and trimmed up the ends on the audio tracks in the Masterlink to get things nice an tight.

 

When I try to make a redbook CD, I get an error 259 and the make aborts. This is at the start during the initialization. It makes a CD-24 of the same playlist fine.

 

Any ideas?

[John Worthington]

Just an update in case others run into the same problem.

 

After digging around with Alesis, it turns out that the error is "Can't write TOC." Through some trial and error, I discovered that the first track of the disk had an error. I replaced that track and everything burned fine.

 

In the meantime, even the track with the error burned ok on a CD24 disc. I took this, popped it in my Mac and used Jam to burn the discs for the client.

 

The fact that you can read a CD24 disc on the Mac (ISO9660 w/ AIFF) is cool. It makes it really fast to take your 2 track master and dump it back into the DAW if necessary.

 

jw

[Anderton]

>>Just an update in case others run into the same problem. <<

 

Thanks, John. I read your original post but didn't have a clue what the problem was, so couldn't answer. But you've also pointed out a more universal problem: corrupted files. For example, I had one graphic file that would crash Photoshop as soon as I went to the "Save for Web" option. I format-converted the picture a couple times, then brought it back into Photoshop, and it worked fine.

 

Thanks for the reminder.