Well, here is my experience so far. The EAC disc writer reports my blank CDs as:
- CD manufacturer: Taiyo Yuden Company Limited - Write strategy: Type 1 (Cyanine : blue/green) They have 80 minute capacity; I was putting about 56 minutes of audio on them. They are blue, but not a deep indigo blue like a Verbatim disc that came with one of my drives. I was burning the CDs with a Pioneer DVR-109, a Pioneer DVR-108, and an old Plextor 12/10/32A CD-RW. My "test lab" was the CD player in my car (2002 PT Cruiser). Using the last version of Nero 6 would let me write using multiple drives at once. I had it set to DAO/96. I tried speeds of 12x (Plextor), 10x (Pioneer), and 4x (all three drives at once). All the resulting CDs would play in the car, but at the end of the disc instead of going back to track 1, it would just skip back about 15 seconds, playing this small selection repeatedly. Then I tried Burrrn at 10x with the Pioneer drives. (Somewhere along the line, the Plextor - which I'd just pulled from an old spare computer - started acting up, so I removed it from the system.) I could create discs at 16x that play correctly in my car. Unfortunately, multiple instances of Burrrn don't seem to play well together. I could successfully burn 2 CDs simultaneously, but one instance of Burrrn (or the underlying CDRDAO) would lock up at the end. It was bad enough that I would have to reboot to get the burned CD out of the drive. Then I tried the Write CD-R function in Exact Audio Copy (using CDRDAO). It wrote CDs that played correctly in the car, and I could also run two instances of EAC to burn on both Pioneers at the same time. So I started burning discs. Unfortunately, there were two times where about two thirds of the way through the disc both instances of EAC would crash with a CDRDAO overflow error, turning the CDs into coasters. That hurt, since the printed discs cost me a couple dollars each. After the second crash, I burned the last few discs one at a time using Burrrn at 16x. The next time I need to burn discs, I'll experiment with one instance of Burrrn and one of EAC. Or maybe I can figure out how CDRDAO is getting called and make a script to run it directly. -- Timothy p.s. MeSue - when you say labels, you mean affixing a paper label, not just labelling the disc with a sharpie? -- TimothyB ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TimothyB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4868 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24237 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
