burning cd's .................HELP!!!!!!!!!

[murfsky]

My objective:
making exact duplicates of some of my music cds. When I say exact, I mean exact track times, spaces between tracks, and exact total time of disc.
Is this even possible?! I have had no luck so far on my own.
I am using Win 98, internal cd-r/rw, and adaptec easy cd-creator 3.5c.
Any help would be appreciated. Help!!!!

Kevin

 

[drstawl]

Are you copying to HD first or do you have an extra CD-ROM on your system?
And FYI: yes, it's possible either way.

 

[cwillu]

You need to get cd software that will read the data between tracks and other fun stuff. Easy CD creator isn't designed to make exact copies. A program I've been using which can do this is CDRWIN, you can get a trial version at "www.goldenhawk.com" The only limitation is that it will only read / write at 1x, but if you want the copy to play even on the worst cd players, you'll want to record the CDR at 1x anyway.

 

[keybuffer]

My CD RW came with two progs from Adaptec: Easy CD Creator and CD Copier Deluxe: I use the second one when I want to copy the whole CD and the only default settings I change are to not verify and to copy to HD first. I'm not sure if it makes it with the exactness that you're after, but hopefully so! My system is fragile when it comes to doing this, so I have to run very minimally and have learned that if I reboot between CD's I can count on them being burned OK. (Might be a memory problem I'm having.) Hope this helps.

 

[Damon]

I have two of these CD-R/RW software which can be use for the perpose you'd trouble with;...
DART CD[Dart tech] &
WinOnCD [CeQuadrat].
The CeQuadrat stuff can exactly do the type of what you're doing, as well make your CD-R/RW as data storage [HardDisk like] in the form they call Packet Writings!
The DartTech stuff have this complete option to record CD (from-to analog or digital media), whether "exactly" copying all contents of one CD to other......
the thing is ...almost any CD-R software is tend for making CD burning [Audio/RedBooks]; while some ofering more(white/orange/yellow/
green).

Thus.....,it can be done straight from CD-rom/player to your CD-Recorder (usualy it required some 'prior' extra stuff/things to do according to your software)or.......... to copy it to the HardDisk first, then "Picked-Up" from HDisk into your software as well as customize the song-list,PQlist,envelope adj,the Gap between each songs of your songs with your specific arangement.
[By the way..I use CD Architect a lot for burning Audio].

Do you really "have" to record it on the run from start to the end...???

I think that, one of many advantages of having CD-Burning S/Hware is to customize anything we like.

[Does this sound like lecturing you....],just wanna share informations vise-versa....!