.wav bounce burns to disc with errors

[Defekt]

Hello! I've had this problem for some time now. I'm running 8.0.1cs1 on a 1st gen Mac Pro tower with 5Gbs of ram and a 002RK. After a stereo interleaved, 16bit wav bounce to disc (yes im using dither), if I burn a disc from the file, when played back from the Cd-r, I get gaps and pops in the audio. The actual wav file plays back on the computer normally, but the CD-r has a ton of artifacts. I get the same results whether I use Simply Burns or Itunes to do the burning. It seems to only happen on wavs coming outta a pro tools bounce. I'm using 44.1/16bit/stereo interleaved/covert after bounce. Interestingly enough as a side note... I just tried to bounce a song to .wav, mp3 and to .aif and put them on the same CD-r using simply burns. The .aif and mp3 seem to have burned just fine and the .wav had artifacts again. I've tried different brands of CD-r's, and I don't believe its the burner. thoughts?

[David MacKenzie]

I've had similar issues with wave files produced by PT8 on my G5. I think PT8's 16-bit waveform overview info in the wave files isn't fully compatible with some non-PT software. On my system, iTunes 9 burns audio CDs fine from PT8 wave files, but SimplyBurns and other 3rd party programs make audio CDs that skip/pop. Exporting as AIFF instead of wave seems to fix the problem, too.

[Defekt]

Itunes 9 and 10 have both done it to me. Yea guess I'm switching to aif till they fix this... what's better for submitting bounces to mastering anyways? wav or aif?

[albee1952]

It may also be a bad burner

[AfterJohn]

Originally Posted by Defekt

what's better for submitting bounces to mastering anyways? wav or aif?

Both file types are acceptable. 24-BIT preferred.