moley6knipe wrote:
> An unfortunate series of events leaves me without a CD drive in my PC,
> and I have absolutely no idea what make/model to look for - haven't
> bought one since my old NEC about 5 years ago! Any advice would be
> gratefully received...
>
> So here's the criteria...
>
> 1. 99% of the time all it'll do is rip audio CDs, so that needs to be
> it's specialty
> 2. But would be nice to have a drive that's not too slow at burning
> DVDs
> 3. Being used in a WinXP machine
> 4. SATA
> 5. colour not important
> 6. LightScribe would be a nice added bonus
> 7. I rip everything to Apple Lossless in iTunes, badly scratched discs
> go into CDex, ripped to wav with Paranoia set to full
> 8. Must be able to rip those "Copy Controlled" CDs
This is a good place to start:
http://www.cdfreaks.com/devices/
I've generally not had problems with any drives I've used, except an
Optiarc (it failed & was replaced, then failed again, so I've sent it
back to be replaced with a Pioneer drive).
R.
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