An update on my progress......

[murfsky]

Thanks for the tips everybody. Listen, I am having better luck since I first posted after performing a few little tweaks to my system, but one thing that I am still unclear about.......... Can recording quality and/or accuracy vary?!?!? And what factors affect this? Writing speed? Using "Disk-at-once?" Your source cd-rom player speed? Writing to hard drive first and then to cd-r or straight from cd-rom to cd-r? In other words ......How do I make the best possible reproductions? I am asking because a few of the copies I made had tracks that recorded, but the music was accompanied by static and distortion. What would cause this?!?!?!?!
Please do not misconstrue my intentions here. I am not looking to pirate audio cds. Every copy I am making is from a cd in my own collection and the copy is being used for my own personal use. I just would like to produce copies that are for all intensive purposes exact replicas of the original.
Are there easily obtainable programs out there that are specifically designed for making excellent reproductions of entire audio cds??? Or can I use my existing programs (easy cd-creator, copier deluxe (Adaptec)) to accomplish this (which one of the two should I use and what settings?)? I have about 50 cds to copy and I would like to blow right through them instead of checking each one. Please remember that I am a total novice when replying to these questions. Thanks everybody

 

[drstawl]

When making digital copies of anything, either it works or it doesn't. There is no
processing circuitry to contend with, just a
transfer of data (a stream of numbers) from one medium to another. Once your file is in .wav or .cda format, the copying software merely transfers exact copies of the material in the tracks. The directory structure and track spacing is SW dependent. And I'm still unclear about what difference it would make to have a CD copy for personal use that had track spacings that were not the same as on the original but differed by less than 3 seconds. Are you using "Sticky Fingers" to time the detonation of high explosives and don't want to sacrifice your factory copy with the cool graphics when the thing blows?
It's a bitch, ain't it?

[This message has been edited by drstawl (edited 11-26-1999).]

 

[dobro]

LOL. Dangerous mind at work.

 

[Emeric]

I've found that with my CD-R (mitsumi), the best way to copy audio CD's is:

Use the burner to extract the audio to your harddrive (Image) and burn from the hard drive. I found using my other CD-ROM to extract, or copying from CD-CDR would result in strange skipping, glitches in the stereo image..

Emeric