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Hello,
It was suggested that I should post this message here instead of the CD-R forum. Sorry for the mix-up.
My goal is copy an audio CD by creating an image of the disc on my hardrive, then burning a CD. I have been using Nero 5.5.10.7 to burn data CD's and audio CD's from .wav files with no problems, so I believe my setup is OK.
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 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.
Using Nero, I select Virtual Recorder to read the source disc and create the image.nrg file. The image.nrg even displays individual track info, which I believe to be correct. Then I select Burn Image, choose the image.nrg file and select the CD-RW as the recorder. The burning (4X, disc at once, finalize) goes fine until I go to listen to the created disc, which correctly offers playtime and is able to jump from track to track as selected using several CD players. The problem is that I hear "skips" (not pops) over the audio. Like bumping a needle on a turntable. 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. I don't know if the "skips" are a part of image file or were created when the image was burned to the CD.
Per a suggestion, I then used EAC to make an image instead of Nero. EAC sees all 10 tracks on the source CD, so I click the "Image" icon and a few minutes later it makes a single 40 minute .wav file from the 10 tracks. I'm guessing if I burn a CD from this image, it won't let me skip from track to track. I'd try it but I'm already making a lot of coasters.
My questions are:
1. Is EAC capable of creating an image from an audio cd that will produce a CD where individual tracks can be selected for playback, and if so, how?
2. What am I doing wrong with Nero?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
JR
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