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I already asked a question on this and got some good responses. Im not really sure yet and thats why I am asking this. Dolemite posted some helpful imformation but Im not sure exactly what it was saying. It seemed to say that all recording speeds were ok.

Heres my situation. I have a lot of music cds, most all have scratches or nicks on them a few have skips. I want to back them all up by making copies of them. I will be getting a computer and have decided to go all out and get a 16/10/32 Plextor CDRW.

1.What software works best for this. Is Adaptecs software good enough?

2.Some of my disks have skips. Now on some of my cd players theses skips are not present. In some cases this is due to a higher quality cd player, other times I think its because I am using one with anti skip protection on it. When I burn theses cds with skips that are not always present, what will happen? Will the copy have skips or not?

3.What about the cds with no skips but scratches?

4.Finally what happens when I copy disks with bad, always present skips.

5.What disks should I get, I was thinking Sony 80 minute disks they also have something with a "silver matt" not sure what this is. I have heard bad things about the 80 minute disks though.

Bottom line; I am not mastering, just burning my audio cds at this point in time. I am mainly concerned with getting perfect copies of what I have now. Can this be done?
 
You're going to have to go search the net for some ripping software. Look for software that claims great accuracy and correctness.

The good news is that good software can actually get rid of skips, and restore lost fidelity! The software operates by repeatedly reading samples from the CDROM until it is confident that it has an accurate value. Therefore, the copies you make might be more accurate than the disc you were playing, and skips might not be present in the copies either.

I had a couple CD's that were really in pretty bad shape. I couldn't play a couple songs because of nasty skips. I use wavelab to copy the tracks and it was able to recover all of the data, which i used to create a "new" copy of the CD. Worked pretty slick.

Now wavelab isn't something that everyone is going to have, but I know that I've seen plenty of freeware CD ripping programs on the net that claim to be very accurate and should work fine for recovering your audio. Try a few out and see which one works the best. The ripper that comes with EZCD Creator isn't very good, and will stop dead if the CD is overly damaged. The ripper that comes with Media Player isn't very good either.

Note, I'm not guaranteeing that you'll be able to recover everything on a badly damaged CD. I have however been very impressed by just how much can be recovered with decent software.

Just to get you started, here's one I found after a few seconds of searching...from what I read at the site, it *should* work fairly well: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/index.html

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Well I downloaded exact audio copy and its great. It restored tracks I thought Id lost forever. Now I have another question. Is adaptecs software good for just writing to the disk (after Iv extracted with EAC?) Or should I look for a program to do that also?
 
I use EAC to rip and Adaptec to burn with great success, haven't made a coaster since I started doing it this way.
 
I think that Adaptec makes good software. I have been using them for a few years now, and I haven't had any "real" problems with their software, as of yet.
 
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