Burning the perfect audio CD
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Used to do a lot of CD burning (Nero 5.x) in my bootleg trading days. Bootleg traders can be a right fussy bunch about their media, and the general opinion of the network I traded within is that unbranded Taiyo Yuden discs are among the best. Any half decent online CDR store should sell cake packs of 25/50/100. Try Here
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Worth mentioning that despite having a moderately powerful(ish) PC, I tend not to have anything else running when I'm burning with Nero, as in the past I've tried surfing at the same time and it seems to bugger the burn every now and again.
Geeky stuff
More geeky stuff
Worth mentioning that despite having a moderately powerful(ish) PC, I tend not to have anything else running when I'm burning with Nero, as in the past I've tried surfing at the same time and it seems to bugger the burn every now and again.
pastor brian said:
Itrips are illegal here. Ordinarily that wouldn't be a problem but there is a guy in our building paid by the government to find and prosecute people with pirate transmitters. He drives a disco with some quite fancy kit installed and we have some fun antennas on the top of the building.
Didnt know that actually. :
I dont see why they would make them illegal though.
They don't specifically pick on Itrips its just any rogue transmitter. You need licenses for receivers too (TV). You would be highly unlikely to get done with an itrip due to the low power but I wouldn't use one in our building because he's just downstairs from me
The iTrip is illegal because it broadcasts on a licensed frequency band - FM.
As for an alternative (not really helpful for the original question though) - there's the new Alpine iPod adapter that means you can plug your iPod into the adapter and then access all the tracks / playlists etc. through the head unit. Very cool.
As for an alternative (not really helpful for the original question though) - there's the new Alpine iPod adapter that means you can plug your iPod into the adapter and then access all the tracks / playlists etc. through the head unit. Very cool.
any reasonably modern cd system should play a cdr - you just burn the cdr to the compact disc format.
you need to finalise the disk - burn disc at once to have a disc play i'm pretty sure, though my belief in this is somewhat shaken by the fact that the discs spin-up for you at all. mmm.
worth ago though?
i always burn discs at the lowest speed available, whether or not this really improves matters is debateable, but it seems sensible to me.
i agree with letting nero get on with it. glitches can be caused by what's known as 'buffer under-run', the write buffer ( which stores the next load of data to be burned ) runs low on data because the system is off doing something else, instead of delivering said data.
this is a particular problem with older systems where memory may not be in such quantity, or where the system speed overall is low, so in this case it's a good idea to shut down everything else. i do this anyway - in terms of having other windows open, though there will be other stuff you can shut down in task manager. i also shut down all forms of power saving and screen savers.
you need to finalise the disk - burn disc at once to have a disc play i'm pretty sure, though my belief in this is somewhat shaken by the fact that the discs spin-up for you at all. mmm.
worth ago though?
i always burn discs at the lowest speed available, whether or not this really improves matters is debateable, but it seems sensible to me.
i agree with letting nero get on with it. glitches can be caused by what's known as 'buffer under-run', the write buffer ( which stores the next load of data to be burned ) runs low on data because the system is off doing something else, instead of delivering said data.
this is a particular problem with older systems where memory may not be in such quantity, or where the system speed overall is low, so in this case it's a good idea to shut down everything else. i do this anyway - in terms of having other windows open, though there will be other stuff you can shut down in task manager. i also shut down all forms of power saving and screen savers.
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choose make an image of the disc ( should be one box you can check, certainly in nero ) - this constructs an image of the disk ( funnily enough! ) so everything's up together on the hard drive ready to go, and therefore the hard disc doesn't have to chip off looking for files all over the shop, and although i have set nero to delete this each time, it doesn't - not that this seems to matter greatly, it just overwrites the file each time.
all these things COULD cause issues. it seems like a bit of a black art - if i had the time and inclination i'd probably work out those measures which are required and which are not, but ( as with much actual use of computers ) i just do what works for me
choose make an image of the disc ( should be one box you can check, certainly in nero ) - this constructs an image of the disk ( funnily enough! ) so everything's up together on the hard drive ready to go, and therefore the hard disc doesn't have to chip off looking for files all over the shop, and although i have set nero to delete this each time, it doesn't - not that this seems to matter greatly, it just overwrites the file each time.
all these things COULD cause issues. it seems like a bit of a black art - if i had the time and inclination i'd probably work out those measures which are required and which are not, but ( as with much actual use of computers ) i just do what works for me
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