Problem copying audio CD, any suggestions?

[agoodpop]

Trying to copy my Christmas CDs so I don't have to take them out of my CD player to put them in my car. Have latest Nero and CloneCD but have made 5 coasters so far. Music skips and has imperfections. Using Maxell CD-R Pro CDs, Plextor 32x12x10 burner and Asus 50x CDROM. I probably don't have an option set in the software. Anyone have suggestions.

 

[sohcrates]

are you doing a cd-to-cd copy?

if so , i would suggest imaging the cd first, and then burning the image

 

[Workin']

Try using Exact Audio Copy. Skips and pops usually mean that you are having troubles copying the data correctly from the source CD. Also, as sohcrates said, copy to your hard drive then to CD, instead of CD-to-CD.

 

[techwanabe]

The only bad CD I've made to date was an Audio CD copy in Nero 5.5. I always set Nero to save to the hard drive first rather than copy on the fly. I burned at the max speed of my CDRW which is 16x and the copy had problems in the later tracks (skipped, or tracks started in the middle of a song etc). I've burned all my other music CDs at 12x or less and had no problems. I've read about other burning music at slower speeds too, so try setting the burn speed at 8x or even 4x.

 

[CSFM]

I had a problem with Nero for 1 day... the same thing as agoodpop had. I uninstalled Nero media player and all went well again. I am now burning on the fly at 12 x. No problems any more. I think it was some sort of software conflict between my Creative Playcenter 2 and Nero media player. Don't know how this would have effected the burning process but uninstalling Nero media player fixed the problem for me...

 

[Zenmervolt]

I'll second the suggestion that you use Exact Audio Copy. If I'm backing up an audio CD of mine, I use EAC to rip the tracks to WAV files, then use Nero to burn the WAV files as an audio CD. I've not run into any problems with this method.

ZV

 

[Shuelessjo]

I have a Plextor 12/4/32 CDRW scsi, and I use Nero. It makes audi CD fine, but I can't above 8x for a quality CD and I always create an image to my HDD before each CD copy.


Joseph

 

[agoodpop]

OK, I've tried EAC, tried burning an image first, even tried ripping first (played fine off of hard drive) then converting back. Have tried different speeds 2x 4x. I can use Clone CD on my laptop w/ a Sony 8x CD-RW (IBM T21 800 MHz) and guess what perfect copies. Could it be my home machine or the burner. The burner is Plextor (high quality) but my machine is old Asus P5A w/ 450MHz K6-3. HD is IBM 7200RPM 30 GB and I have 512 MB of RAM. Any thoughts, thanks!

 

[CSFM]

You could copy to HDD then to your CDR but that is just avoiding the problem not fixing it.

Have you tried removing all other installed media players? Winamp is also a known killer, it can cause all sorts of problems. Try removing any un-necessary media playing programs. If you have DVD software this shouldn't be a problem. What sort of sound card are you using?
If this doesn't work also try removing all other burning programs except Nero (this means INCD packet writer as well).

Also... do you have the CD Rom and the CDR/RW working off the same IDE cable. If so reconfigure you system so the CD Rom and the CDR/RW are on different cables, and make sure you are using ATA 80 core cables where needed.

 

[CSFM]

Ohhh... And one more thing... have you tested the speeds of your CD Rom? Just because it says 50x on the front doesn't mean that it will have data transfer rates of 50x... I just dumped an old ATAPI CD Rom from my system that said 40x on the front... When I knew full well that this piece of junk was only capable of 7.98x data and audio transfer rates. If you start to run out of buffer in the blue columns on the burning screen before the end of the disk burning process then this will be your problem. Just a though...

 

[Gunslinger08]

Just read about this actually.. I think it may be using SafeAudio copy protection.. does it play fine in your cd-rom, as well as your car system/other cd players? If it is distorted in your cd-rom, then it's copy protected.. this stuff will be mainstream soon.

Josh

 

[techwanabe]

SafeAudio eh? What will we need to back up SafeAudio disks, the newest revision of CloneCD? Hopefully it will only be a matter of a newer software revision to take care of these pesky problems.

 

[AkumaBao]

Try the Click n' Burn Software. It copies it to the hard drive first, then burns it. That's how it is always also. I've saved so many CD's becuase of it, after Switching from Easy CD Creator. Haven't had it fail yet.