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Slow Audio Extraction in Adaptec EZ CD Creator 4

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MonstaThrilla

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For some reason beyond me, Adaptec EZ CD Creator 4 only recognizes my DVD-Rom drive to extract audio at 5x. The CD rate on that drive is 20X, my burner drive is 6x, and the program defaults the burner to 4x to compensate. This results in EXTREMELY long burning times (sometimes I think that the extraction rate is even slower), and sometimes the program just crashes in the middle of burning a disc. New patches and drivers didn't fix the problem.

Using the older version 3 of the sofware yields none of those problems, but that version doesn't even recognize MP3's. I downloaded Nero but the program crashed my computer the second I installed it and I had to delete it through safe mode (running in normal mode would just result in a crash seconds after Windows started up).

My burner is a SCSI based TEAC. I've been thinking that getting a good SCSI CD-Rom drive will solve the problem. There IS an empty SCSI input on the SCSI ribbon cable inside my comp. Should I do it?

Oh yeah, my DVD-Rom drive that came preinstalled with my comp (a Gateway) is an IDE made by Matsushita. I could fit three 5.25 drives into my comp.

Thanks...

 
Audio extraction in EZCD Creator is hopeless - I've had a similar problem:

I have a Panasonic 24x SCSI CD-ROM, this has 12x audio extraction in every program I've tried except EZCD creator 4 - EZCD can't even manage 1x.

I've also found EZCD 4 to be very buggy, with random crashes, and adding clicks to copied audio CDs - at the same time it is missing a large number of useful features.

Before swapping out hardware, I'd suggest looking at some better software - for audio only, in my experience, feurio is unbeatable: nothing else comes close. If you want to ditch EZCD for data as well, then nero is a good choice.
 
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