[jobiesmi]

Thanks Garry & George for the comeback. I guess I didn’t explain my methodology precisely enough. I work in digital audio, video and graphic design. After completing a project, archiving audio, video, graphical and CD+G files is part of my routine. When creating a CD+G compilation, first the tracks are ripped from the commercial discs to my hard drive, then assembled and burned. Custom labels are created. Upon completion of a compilation (or a created-from-scratch CD+G track), all files that where created for that project (.cdg, .bin, .wav, .psd, .jpg, whatever) are arranged in named folders, and then archived to disc for storage. I manage all my saved files for media manually and don’t depend on an application to tell me where to store a created file on my hard drive. That way I always know where everything is all the time. My method for getting them to archive disc is to burn them as data files, as apposed to burning a CD+G disc that will play on a karaoke machine. In theory, these data files should hold up in the transfer from my hard drive to archive disc and back again. Then when I need to make a re-creation of one of them, I should be able to drag them back to my hard drive from the archive disc, and then re-burn the compilation. The problem is that, once the archived files are returned to my hard drive, some of these compilation files can be burned to a new CD+G disc to be played, and some don’t work anymore, even though all where archived by the same method.

Since no one seems to know what is happening to these data file transfers, the better method for archiving would seem to be to simply make an extra CD+G disc for archiving purposes, then when re-creating one, use “Duplicate Disc” in Microstudio to make the re-creation. This method works fine and after thinking about it, is probably easier than trying to work with the data files. However, archiving with data files is the preferred and purest method with my other professional grade applications. I have never encountered this problem before when working with archived data files in other applications.

I would still like to know why some data files work and some don’t, and why, if these same files can be played in Microstudio, why won’t they burn? How do I get some of the MTU gurus to chime in on this topic? This forum is more complicated to learn than Adobe After Effects, Ha!