also sprach Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.0526 +0100]: > Maybe because they are lamers who are used to crappy products and wont > notice that there speedy copied cd's are full of cracks and pops:)
i've use nero for years and never had a single broken cd. truly honestly... nero is an amazing product! > More seriously, there is only one *good* audio copy program on Windows > that I know of, i.e. ExactAudioCopy, and that one takes its time to > grab an audio cd just like cdparanoia on linix. clonecd and nero, and even adaptec cd creator always did real well! i am sorry to be praising win32 s/w, but i do have my reasons to be a little annoyed about CD burning on linux/unix... > Those two programs take there time to ensure that the bitstream > grabbed is actually the bitstream on the cd. > As you prob. know a data > cd has a whole lot of error correcting bits that are missing on audio > cd's. obviously, but cdrdao, for instance, first "analyzes" the entire cd without storing any info anywhere (in --on-the-fly mode). *then* it goes on reading the data. i have a 16x burner and a drive that's capable of 24x audio extraction, but i can only burn with 12x at the most because of libparanoia (which is *not* a problem), but even with 24x cdda extraction, it almost doubles the time to duplicate a cd... > For the burning part, some people claim to hear the difference between > 1 or 2 speed written discs on the one hand and really fast written > discs on the other hand. bollocks. and i can distinguish a punk rock recording on CD from 192kbps MP3s. yeah right. (i can actually tell 192kbps classical MP3s from CDs, not so at 224kbps anymore, and only beethoven, mahler, and verdi -- which are the ones i know really well). > Both scanning with cdparanoia) and burning (with cdrecord) can be > steared from within xcdroast. yeah, but it takes ages *and* requires 700mb free space. > > correct me if i am wrong, but isn't the act of disk-at-once writing an > > audio CD simply writing of a TOC followed by a bit stream? and isn't the > > act of reading and copying a TOC fairly simple and not dependent on > > scanning the entire CD? > > Not always, sometimes the TOC is invalid, or mediocre and doesn't contain > the right gap values. really? that's interesting and news to me. that would account for cdrdao's analyzing time. i am just annoyed that you can't specify an option to disable that if you really just want to burn 1-to-1 without the paranoia... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "finally, we have a president who knows how to run the government like a business. presuming the business is pets.com." -- gail collins
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