Right speed in copying a CD...

[Jim and Pat German]

Hi Friends,

A friend of mine told me that I could make a better copy of a CD on "Record
Now" by dropping the copy recording speed to "2X" speed. Do you agree with
this?

When I start copying a CD on my Compaq Computer, Windows XP Preserio I have
two trays. The lower tray just plays a CD. The upper tray both plays and
records or copies a CD.

The copy of a "FIRST" CD is recorded or copied is just 4 minutes. The "make
another copy" feature will take 13 minutes to make the second, third, forth
and so on copies. Why the difference in the speeds? Is the copy that is
made in 13 minutes of better quality than the CD that is copied in just 4
minutes?

Thank you for your help! James M. German

 

[Guest]

If you want to do some serious cd burning, use Nero and good media.

MD

 

[Guest]

I do a lot of writing stuff in daily routines. Mostly I copy the entire CDs
to new one. No matter how much copies I create, it takes the same time. To do
this, I use the "Copy Entire Disc" option in Nero Express. You will amazed to
know that it takes on 6 mintues to do the entire process for 700MB or 80 Mins
CD. This is not the end of excitement. I only have a LG 16x52x32x52x Combo
Drive for both read and write process. I takes 3 mins to read and 3 mins to
write. According to me, this option is available in evry cd writing software.

Furthermore, do you know that your PC takes more time while reading from
CD-ROM and writing to CD-Writer and if there is a data error on your original
CD then your copy will fail. This doesn't happen with me as Nero first take a
copy of entire CD to HDD and then write it to the CD. So, if there is an
error on my orginal CD it will fail only the image creating process.

Theme is: if you do a lot of copies of single CD then you should use to Copy
CD option and you should use only the CD-Writer for both process.

Hope this information is useful to you, let us know!

 

[FrontPage Novice]

I knew a Pat German at Cajun Clickers.

I have the same issue at times. Like when I copy files from the HD to the
external backup USB drive. The more files copied, the slower the operation.

Usually the CDs copied or created here work the same. The only thing I
notice diff is when copying a song, the software allows the bitrate /
quality to be set. I always set it to the best quality.

What a shock for me. I bought a Maddog DVD-RW burner and the ROXIO easy
media creator will burn 2 CDs or DVDs at the same time. I burn a lot of CDs
about Katrina and give them away. This feature was unknown to me and it
really speeds up burning a doz CDs

 

[Robert Moir]

Hi Friends,

A friend of mine told me that I could make a better copy of a CD on
"Record Now" by dropping the copy recording speed to "2X" speed. Do
you agree with this?

When I start copying a CD on my Compaq Computer, Windows XP Preserio
I have two trays. The lower tray just plays a CD. The upper tray
both plays and records or copies a CD.

The copy of a "FIRST" CD is recorded or copied is just 4 minutes. The
"make another copy" feature will take 13 minutes to make the
second, third, forth and so on copies. Why the difference in the
speeds? Is the copy that is made in 13 minutes of better quality
than the CD that is copied in just 4 minutes?

Thank you for your help! James M. German

To be honest, I'm not a big fan of the built in recorder. I appreciate that
my suggestion will mean a change in how you work and hence isn't desirable,
but I'd suggest moving to a more robust CD burning program.

You can actually download a very good freeware one from
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/


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