- Dec 26, 2005
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My toshiba laptop l25 came with a horrible dvd/cdrw drive, it doesnt seem to be compatable with many commands. Can't rip at specific speeds, spin-up commands don't seem to get it to really spin up. My rips start out at 4x and sometimes if I'm lucky they go up to 18x, which seems only to happen on my 4 year old cdr discs. Brand new pressed discs never go faster than 10x. When it encounters scratches, sometimes it will even go off to other tracks, or copy the first half of the song twice, or it just plain locks up. So what do you suggest for a burner either external or if not can you suggest a external usb case to go along with it.
any other suggestions for scratched discs would be nice
I'm currently using dmc audio for ripping, which seems to lock up more than others but seems to work the best (love the accuraterip feature more people need to use it though), also have used Rio Music Manager since I own a karma, and winamp which seems to get past the scratches that nothing else will (I rip only to flac, so built in flac is way more convenient)
Is there actually any good consumer repair device? I've bought one from best buy, lasted two weeks and then quit. Don't think it did much but get rid of the superficial scratches anyways. Right now I've been using a 4 sided nail file/polisher block and just using a circular motion with seems to work better than the repair device ever did.
any other suggestions for scratched discs would be nice
I'm currently using dmc audio for ripping, which seems to lock up more than others but seems to work the best (love the accuraterip feature more people need to use it though), also have used Rio Music Manager since I own a karma, and winamp which seems to get past the scratches that nothing else will (I rip only to flac, so built in flac is way more convenient)
Is there actually any good consumer repair device? I've bought one from best buy, lasted two weeks and then quit. Don't think it did much but get rid of the superficial scratches anyways. Right now I've been using a 4 sided nail file/polisher block and just using a circular motion with seems to work better than the repair device ever did.