Bill, If you are using the Plextor 12X writer, it has "Burnproof" built
into the hardware, which gives it capabilities most other drives
do not have. Burnproof, a Sanyo design, allows for the drive to prevent
buffer underruns by being able to relocate the point where the disk
stopped writing, due to lack of data, and then hook back to it and
continue. This ability also allows for you to surf the web or do other
activities while you are burning.
I have a Plextor 8X, which does not have burnproofing, and I find Easy
CD fragile but usable. I have not found I am able to write directly
from my 44x CD-ROM drive even though it does support audio extraction
and is, by test, fast enough for 8X copying.
There have been some complaints about Easy CD from others who have found
other products more reliable for their needs. I suspect there are so
many variables that we may never know if success or failure is due to a
specific software package or just the particular system setup.
Art
william storm wrote:
> I have the same software and have excellent results. Most often you will find
> that the hardware and bufferin are the major problems. I am using a TEAC on
>one
> computer and a Plexstor on another - no problems. I use a DVD/CD player for
>the
> source in each case. What can cause problems is the inability of the source
> drive to extract audio. Audio extraction of both devices need to be at least
>at
> the factor you wish to copy at. For example in my case the Player drive
>extracts
> at 16x and the burner can record at 13x (really 12x). With these tested (the
> Adaptec Software provides this system test) numbers I have no problem burning
> audio at 12x. Images are actually easier to deal with.
>
> Bill S.
>
> Eli Bowen wrote:
>
>
>> It's hard for me to believe that anyone gets "flawless" performance
>> from Adaptect Easy CD Creator Version 4.03a. I haven't used it for image
>> files yet, but my experience with burning music CDs has not been good and
>> has made me want to find an alternative both for music and for archiving
>> scanned photos. Maybe it will be fine for images, but the performance with
>> music has not inspired any confidence in me. The CDs often have errors that
>> are not reported by Easy CD Creator; I only find out later when the disk
>> stops playing halfway through a song or starts "dropping" chunks of music or
>> starts making noises that shouldn't be there. I get this even when playing
>> the CD back on the same machine on which it was recorded and even on CDs
>> burned at 1X speed.
>> Anyone else have this experience?
>> Can anyone else recommend a more reliable piece of software?
>> I'm very reluctant to upgrade to a Version 5 if this basic and very
>> serious problem has not been fixed.
>> For burning, I'm using a Matsushita UJDA310 drive in a Dell Inspiron
>> 7500 laptop that has a 600 MHz Pentium III and 256 MB RAM running Win 2K.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Larry Berman [mailto:larry@bermanart.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 9:00 AM
>> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>> Subject: Re: filmscanners: OT: burning cd's/easy cd creator
>>
>> The company that's putting out EZ CD Creator is Roxio:
>>
>>
>> I'm using 4.0 flawlessly and can't imagine what a $79 upgrade could be
>> worth.
>>
>> Larry
