I've been a registered user of CDA, Sonic Foundry, and ACID Pro for years. I'm running a recording studio, and I use CDA5 to burn my session results to CD for listening between sessions. My client from last night just called to let me know that the three CD's we burned for him have the WRONG SONG on them (in fact, from a totally different artist). I am certain that this is a bug. We worked on no other song all night. This has happened at least one other time before that I'm aware of (about 2 months ago) but I never reported the problem before now.
Here is the entire sequence of events:
1. Record and mix the song in Cakewalk SONAR 2.2 XL, using various directX effects like Waves, etc. Export the song to 2-track WAV file, 24 bit, 44.1khz.
2. Open up CDA5, and click the icon (top left of screen) to create a new blank project.
3. Click the 3rd icon to Open Media, and browse to my new WAV file. Double-click on the title in the Media Pool and add the song to the project (this is now the one and only song on the CD). CDA starts "building peaks" and eventually shows me the wave form in the area at the top of the screen.
4. Right-click on the wave form, and select the option "Open Copy in Sound Forge". Then SF5.0 opens up, and a copy of my WAV comes in for editing.
5. Edit the WAV in SF5.0, removing snippets from the beginning and end of the song, and making it a few seconds shorter.
6. Click the Save icon (not Save As) in SF5.0 (saving the song to its automatically generated name "MySong Take 2"), wait a few seconds for it to be sure to be done saving, then close SF5.0.
7. Back in CDA now, my WAV is busy being replaced by the newly edited
version (automatically named "MySong Take 2.wav") from SF5.0 that I just
modified. However, the length of the clip in CDA still seems to be the same
as before (empty space at the end), so I drag the right edge of the WAV to
the left a bit and shorten the song appropriately so that it matches the
length of the edited WAV.
8. Add DirectX mastering effects to the master bus. Listen a few times.
Sounds great.
9. Insert blank CD-R. Click icon on top bar for "Burn CD...". The process
seems to go smoothly. When it asks if I want to create another disk I say
"Yes" and insert another blank CD-R. We create 3 CD's this way. I hand the
CD's to my client and they take off for home.
10. This morning I find out that the CD's don't have the song we worked on,
instead there's a song from another artist! I didn't work on anyone else
yesterday, just the one group. I open up the CDA project again today and
the correct song is in it, it plays fine, WAV still edited, mastering
effects working fine.
How could my client have gotten the wrong song burned on their CD-R??? No
other projects were worked on or even opened during this session, since the
previous night when another group was in.
Here is the entire sequence of events:
1. Record and mix the song in Cakewalk SONAR 2.2 XL, using various directX effects like Waves, etc. Export the song to 2-track WAV file, 24 bit, 44.1khz.
2. Open up CDA5, and click the icon (top left of screen) to create a new blank project.
3. Click the 3rd icon to Open Media, and browse to my new WAV file. Double-click on the title in the Media Pool and add the song to the project (this is now the one and only song on the CD). CDA starts "building peaks" and eventually shows me the wave form in the area at the top of the screen.
4. Right-click on the wave form, and select the option "Open Copy in Sound Forge". Then SF5.0 opens up, and a copy of my WAV comes in for editing.
5. Edit the WAV in SF5.0, removing snippets from the beginning and end of the song, and making it a few seconds shorter.
6. Click the Save icon (not Save As) in SF5.0 (saving the song to its automatically generated name "MySong Take 2"), wait a few seconds for it to be sure to be done saving, then close SF5.0.
7. Back in CDA now, my WAV is busy being replaced by the newly edited
version (automatically named "MySong Take 2.wav") from SF5.0 that I just
modified. However, the length of the clip in CDA still seems to be the same
as before (empty space at the end), so I drag the right edge of the WAV to
the left a bit and shorten the song appropriately so that it matches the
length of the edited WAV.
8. Add DirectX mastering effects to the master bus. Listen a few times.
Sounds great.
9. Insert blank CD-R. Click icon on top bar for "Burn CD...". The process
seems to go smoothly. When it asks if I want to create another disk I say
"Yes" and insert another blank CD-R. We create 3 CD's this way. I hand the
CD's to my client and they take off for home.
10. This morning I find out that the CD's don't have the song we worked on,
instead there's a song from another artist! I didn't work on anyone else
yesterday, just the one group. I open up the CDA project again today and
the correct song is in it, it plays fine, WAV still edited, mastering
effects working fine.
How could my client have gotten the wrong song burned on their CD-R??? No
other projects were worked on or even opened during this session, since the
previous night when another group was in.