Hello,
I may die of old age by the time I figure this out. Here's the deal: I can burn data and audio CD's from files on my hard drive with no problem. Now I'd like to copy an audio CD which has about 43 minutes of contiguous audio over 10 tracks, ie: there is no silence between tracks. I could try extracting each track and spacing them at zero seconds, but I think burning a CD-R from an image of the whole audio CD would work better. However, this approach yields a disc that contains what sounds likes "skips" (not pops) over the audio. Like bumping a needle on a turntable. This is the first time I've tried burning a CD from an image file.
I have a Win98SE PC, PIII-800EB, 512MB, 25GB of available disk space and all non-essential TSR's are disabled. The hard drive is an IBM75GXP 30GB and is master on primary IDE channel. I have a new Cendyne CD-RW 48x16x48 set as master on secondary IDE. A Toshiba 40X CD is slave on secondary IDE. My Cendyne came bundled with Nero 5.5.8.2, but I just upgraded to 5.5.10.7. My PC has no SCSI devices. I have an ASUS CUSL2 motherboard with Intel 815 chipset. A USB 1.0 webcam and USB 1.0 printer are attached. I also have a PCI 56K modem and PCI sound card. Windows ASPI is installed and says it's working fine.
DMA is the only option ticked for the CD-RW in system/dev mgr. I use Nero Virtual Recorder to read the source disc and create the image.nrg file. Then I select Burn Image, choose the image.nrg file and select the CD-RW as the recorder. All goes fine until I go to listen to the created disc, which correctly offers playtime and is able to jump from track to track. The "skips" are heavy in tracks 1-3, then go away. I have tried Verbatim, TDK and Memorex CD-R media with the same results.
The Nero "CD Copy" tab has a load of options, of which I have not tried every combination. I always burn at 4X and tick "Disk at once".
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
JR
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 28. February 2003 @ 14:10
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