Burning Burned CD's at higher than 4x

[JohnnyO]

I've heard rumors that if your planning on burning burned CD's, you shouldn't burn them at anything more than 4x. I have a 12x Aopen drive with burnproofing and "Justlink". Is this a fact or a myth?

 

[formulav8]

If the cd's are rated at 8x you should have any problems buring at 8x. If they are rated for 16x you should have any problems burning at 16x. But usually the slower burns have less errors.

 

[bacillus]

<< that if your planning on burning burned CD's, >>


your question is a bit unclear. what do you mean by &quot;burned CD's&quot;?
you can burn cds as fast as you like with your burner with burnproofing! the risk of a coaster is very small!

 

[JackMDS]

Yeah, and few centuries ago they thought that when some people take off their socks, you get a thunder storm.

 

[JohnnyO]

Sorry for being unclear. If I was to burn a new CD from a friend, and then later my brother wanted a copy, could I use the copy that I made and burn my brother a copy at 12x? Or should I use a slower speed? The discs are rated for 16x. All your comments are appreciated.

 

[chuckieland]

usually it depend on the speed of cdr been rate
if it's rate 12x I burn at 8x
if rate at 8x i burn at 6x just to be on the safe side
also for music, I always burn at 4x because not every dvd/cdrom has ability to pickup music file at high speed.

 

[lacunae]

burn-proof is a wonderful thing... when i first got my 12x4x32 cdrw (w/burn-proof), i ran a torture-test of sorts that included burning an audio cd on the fly from mp3s stored on a couple of different machines on a network, while watching a dvd (software decoding on a k6-3/400) on the machine with the burner, encoding mp3s on the same machine, and streaming video (mpeg) between the two machines that the mp3s were coming from (both slower machines). the buffer was hitting 0% every few seconds, but the cd came out just fine.

btw: what i usually do (now) when making a cd copy is to check the box (adaptec cd-copier) to copy to the hard drive first and then burn. this way i can tell right away if there's a problem with the source material, instead of getting halfway through the burn and finding that the source cd has some errors.

 

[NelsonMuntz]

Burning a copy of a copy shouldn't be a big deal. The NTI software that came with my first burner (three years ago) wouldn't allow me to do that, but ever since I started using Nero I can do it no problem at all at any speed.