Incompatability while ripping or copying CD's

[Michael]

While 'starting out' transferring all my records and tapes to CD, I had a CD
recorder. I have however found, that while copying my CD's to an external
hard drive, that the process stops before the ripping process finishes. On
my laptop, I am greeted with the CD making a sort of wirling noise.
Meanwhile, my PC thinks it's an incompatibility issue.

Now for the ironic bit. My CD's don't seem to be affected.* Otherwise they
would not play properly on my Hi Fi CD Player.

Meanwhile, any feedback in relation to the above would remain helpful. I'd
like to know why the ripping or copying works on some CD's and not others.


Michael Feldman


*The only exception being. Some of my Pre-recorded CD's either skip or
backtrack on my CD units in my kitchen/office. Any feedback on this too,
would be useful.

 

[ruic]

Sounds like your CD's might either be scratched or dirty. I computer is much
more precise than a CD player and therefore more susceptible to failing with
a dirty or damaged CD.

The CD player in the kitchen skipping means that it's probably a cheaper
model and has less error correction circuitry.

Just my thoughts.

Rui

 

[Andrew Wilson]

Sounds like your CD's might either be scratched or dirty. I computer is
much more precise than a CD player and therefore more susceptible to
failing with a dirty or damaged CD.

The CD player in the kitchen skipping means that it's probably a cheaper
model and has less error correction circuitry.

Just my thoughts.

Rui

Could be poor quality discs. After many burn failures using the cheaper
discs I now buy Verbatim discs. Never had a problem since. They cost a bit
more but worth it in my opinion.
Regards
Andrew Wilson

 

[Michael]

I now buy Verbatim discs.

Andrew. I thought TDK was supposed to be a good brand. After all, when I was
transferring those songs, I had TDK CD Rewritables and some recordables.

Of course, with over 1500 songs for the record, one remains only wiser after
the event. When I started the project nearly five years back, I was only
learning. Never thinking twice about the pitfalls that were to come.

To the point then. Could you tell me what format you use with the Verbatim
discs? For example. Are you using Rewritables or Recordables to transfer
your songs. Another example being, either from tapes or record?

Following on from here, I can then return the unopened TDK's I have to the
organisation that I originally purchased them from.

Michael

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[Andrew Wilson]

I now buy Verbatim discs.

Andrew. I thought TDK was supposed to be a good brand. After all, when I
was transferring those songs, I had TDK CD Rewritables and some
recordables.

Of course, with over 1500 songs for the record, one remains only wiser
after the event. When I started the project nearly five years back, I was
only learning. Never thinking twice about the pitfalls that were to come.

To the point then. Could you tell me what format you use with the Verbatim
discs? For example. Are you using Rewritables or Recordables to transfer
your songs. Another example being, either from tapes or record?

Following on from here, I can then return the unopened TDK's I have to the
organisation that I originally purchased them from.

Michael

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Michael
I use DVD-R and DVD-RW Verbatim discs to save my photographs and not songs
but I am sure it would work perfectly well with songs.
I burn a file with photographs to an empty DVD-RW using Nero as a start of a
multi-session (this means that you can add further files/folders at a later
date but ONLY DVD-RW discs support this feature). I can then add further
folders in time when they have been downloaded from the camera using Nero's
'Continue multi-session' feature which adds the new folder(s) to the
folder(s) saved previously. I can then keep adding folders until the DVD-RW
indicates that it is at capacity and the current folder to be written
exceeds the free space on the disc.
I then transfer all the folders on the DVD-RW to 'My Documents' then insert
a DVD-R and burn all these folders to the DVD-R using Nero's 'No
Multi-session' feature which burns everything onto the disc in one run and
then finalises the disc.
I then wipe the DVD-RW and start all over again with the folder that
exceeded the DVD-RW's capacity.
Taiyo Yuden are another excellent DVD media to buy.
Regards
Andrew Wilson

 

[T Shadow]

I use DVD-R and DVD-RW Verbatim discs to save my photographs and not songs
but I am sure it would work perfectly well with songs.
I burn a file with photographs to an empty DVD-RW using Nero as a start of
a multi-session (this means that you can add further files/folders at a
later date but ONLY DVD-RW discs support this feature).

Not true. If you leave a DVD+/-R (or CD-R for that matter) open you can keep
adding to it until it's closed. Wouldn't be much point to leaving them open
otherwise. W's have a limited life(which may be less than expected) so it's
less reliable. YMMV

 

[Michael]

Thanks for the reply guys. I'll endeavour to reply properly soon as I'm
getting ready to leave home. Still replying to say that I've seen both your
threads.

All the best


Michael