I don't want to loose 1500 mp3's... SUGGESTIONS PLEASE!!!

[jweldridge]

I have been using a relivitavely small HDD to save mp3's on (20 Gig). As the drive got full I would burn a CD, delete the files and keep on chugging along. I just installed a new Maxtor 80 Gig and started copying the files off the CD's back to my HD... this is where it gets PUCKED UP!!! Every one of the 52 CD's is unable to read the last 25 or 30 songs. I get a error message "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)". What dose this mean in ENGLISH... and don't tell me it means I'm screwed. I'm using a Plextor 8/20 SCSI burner and a Plextor 40X wide SCSI CD ROM. All the blanks are Imation 700MB. While reading the CD's some will only read the first 540 Meg, some will read up to 650 Meg before I get the error. I'm running Windows 2000 and used NERO (full version) to burn with. I tried to use 2 other computers to read these CD... exact same result. Is there any way known to a meer mortal man to get my music back?

Thanks,
John Eldridge

 

[Workin']

In English, it sounds like you are screwed.

Can you play the "problem" mp3's directly from the CDR? Try reading the CD's on another computer, that will tell you if the problem is with the discs or your drives. But I'll bet the discs are hosed. Don't ask me why, though. But stories like this are why I always verify my data after I back it up and before I delete the originals.

 

[Endeffect]

I hate that exact same error a few CDs I burned (ironically enough) with mp3s. I was trying to recover some mp3s from a CD I had burned a bit over a year ago.. not sure why it did it, but that CD is definitely agoner. Damn.

 

[spanky]

i thought when burning audio cd's...the cd was limited by the minutes and not mbs....or am i smoking too much weed?

 

[Workin']

1 minute of CD audio = ~10 megabytes. Bits is bits and all that. Standard CDR's hold about 650MB of data or about 740MB (that's about 74 minutes worth) of music. The CD data structure is different for data than for Red Book CD audio, that's why it can't hold as many megabytes. Anyway, mp3's are written as data format, not CD audio.

 

[llew]

What type of CDR did you use? If it's the type with short strategy dye, then you are out of luck. You can try copy the files under dos (copy *.mp3), or try a slower cd-rom (maybe 12x). Also make sure that your cdr is cool when you are copying from it.

 

[Damascus]

You could try using the Plextor tools to set your reader to a lower
speed.