How do you burn cd on to cd drive when WRITE ERROR appears on screen ?

Press [UTILITY].

– Press CURSOR [] to move the cursor to “INI,” then press [ENTER].

– Press CURSOR [] to move the cursor to “CARD,” then press [ENTER]. The confirmation message “Are you sure?” appears in the display.

– To continue the initialization, press [ENTER]. To cancel, press [EXIT] or [UTILITY].

When [ENTER] is pressed, initialization begins. When the initializing has been completed, “Completed!” appears in the display. The message “Keep power on! Song creating…” then appears in the display, and a new song is automatically created. In this case, the data type selected is HiFi (MT2). When the creation of the song is finished, the play screen returns to the display.

You have a memory problem. If you are using a flash card for memory or a CD drive or perhaps you have configured an external drive, you need to free up some space. Try deleting tracks or songs you don't need anymore.

Each song is independent on a CompactFlash
without affecting other songs. You can give a desired song name for managing recorded songs
(see pages 23 and 91).
Recorded track data is stored in a song as mono WAV files.
The MR-8mkII can convert the two WAV files recorded on tracks 7 and 8 (L and R) to a stereo
WAV file (see page 115).
You can export the converted stereo WAV file to your USB-connected personal computer, and
use the file by a music software application or make an original audio CD on the computer using
a CD burn software application. You can also burn an audio CD by using an external CD-R/RW
drive connected via the [USB HOST] port of the MR-8mkII (see page 115 and 123)
Fostex MR 8MKII Owner Manual Page 73 Fostex MR 8MKII Owner Manual Exporting Data To Personal Computer...

Are you using the auto delete feature? Get rid of data you don't need here: http://www.manualslib.com/manual/53326/Fostex-Mr-8mkii.html?page=135#manual

"Drag and Drop" was the method Microsoft wanted for the PC's. Macs already had it.- You just need a CD burner and a blank CD. The license issues I will not go into because the process is the same for any files you want to burn to CD.

How you want the CD to format- for use only on some Cd players and most computers? Or Most CD players? That is where the difference exists.

Starting with a CD in the drive, you can use (with a high failure rate) Microsoft Media player7 or higher, or a more structured program like "Burn Aware Free"- this latter program will work with CD burners as well as DVD burners. The first screen it opens to is the type of disk you want to make. A CD ROM will hold easily hold more than 200 to 300 songs if they are burned as data- the Audio CD has additional formatting and will usully hold only 20 songs or less. They also need to be CD audio format to play on the most numbers of CD players- some will not recognize MP3 files or other different audio files (usually the older drives that made it this far.)

With either program, you can drag the files from the folder over to the main information field of either program and "drop them" Then you can select "burn."

Also make sure to "close the disk", otherwise it will only be readable on drives of the same manufacturer as the one that created it.

If you just drag and drop to the CD via "my computer" you can then "right click" and "Burn to CD" in data form.

Try transferring the song into a playlist on itunes, then click the burn cd button. If this doesn't work try a different cd, the one you are using might already be used or the incorrect format.

"it never works"... this is NOT enough information for us. You are not telling us how the CD is tested. If you are testing it in a boombox type player, that is not a test. First thing is to look at the bottom of the CD to see if you can detect written tracks... with right lighting you can tell if it has been burned. REMEMBER that CD's, unlike phonograph records, are written from the middle outward. Many consumer players have trouble playing CD's that are written but not "finalized". If you CAN see written area (compare to unburned CD) then likely the burning is taking place, and the problem is the format is either not complete or incompatible with your player. Try reading the disk in your computer. Also you might want to visit the forums for the Boss/Roland workstations at VSPLANET.com.

You can download a manual from the tascam site for this model. as long as you pre-named your songs, they should show in the menu without mastering. You cannot burn any songs without mastering your songs first, however. They will not appear in the create cd section for this very reason.
Record, master,burn.

On page 22 of your manual, it appears that the warning message is used for more than one thing.

Make sure that you have entered the new song name text and it is accepted since if the name is not entered and accepted you will get that message.

If the text is unacceptable OR you try to advance to song creation when name has not been accepted will bring up that message.

The manual is really poor and I can understand your frustration.

It is UNCLEAR to us exactly at what point in the entry the message appears. Have you entered all the song name using all letters and then selected the enter function below? Does the message appear before you select the enter? or after you do...?

MICHAEL SCOTT: YOU PASSED ALONG SOME GREAT INFORMATION BUT IT ONLY GETS ME HALFWAY THERE...
I HAVE ALL THE NECESSARY CABLES HOOKED UP. DO YOU HAVE TO RECORD MY SONG FROM THE 1180 TO AUDACITY OR WHAT?...THIS IS ALL NEW TO ME AND IT MAY WORK BUT TELL ME HOW TO RECORD FROM THE 1180 TO AUDACITY.
THANKS...GEORGE SLADEK

The 4 second thing is typical.

This Is real simple grab a cable that goes from rca jacks to a headphone jack then plug the rca jacks into the br-1180's audio out jack and then plug the other end into your computers mic port.
Download Audacity From www.Audacity.com and then use it to capture you audio and then you can burn that when complete.
Its real simple I do it all the time even though I have the br-1180cd the cd burner burns real quiet so I don't use it. The cable can be bought at radio shack, best buy, wal-mart and I have even seen them at 99 cent only stores.
If you have more question let me know This Is my main unit so I know a lot about it.
Sincerely,
Michael Scott