dizzy73 wrote:
If you have any luck burnig music cds in a timely fashion please let me know how you did it. Data burns fine, I started a music cd this am and 12 hours later it still hadent finished. Feel free to correspond on or off list. Id like to get the music side going a bit better
12 hours???? Is this just the burning phase, or does this include ripping the audio off the first CD as well. I'm guessing that it's stuck at the ripping phase. If you're using some integrated burning program like xcdroast, then it may be calling 'cdparanoia' to rip the audio (I'm just guessing, I only use the command-line). If cdparanoia tries to grab audio of a damaged CD, then it can go very slowly as it tries to repair the damage. Sometimes I think the damage is so bad that never gets fixed. I had a CD which I needed to copy audio off, but a couple of the tracks at the end were quite badly scratched. The solution was to call cdparanoia with the 'don't fix anything' setting on those dodgy tracks. This way it didn't spend an infinite amount of time trying to fix something that couldn't be fixed. It did result in some cracks and pops in the output wav file where the scratches were, but that's the price you pay for a damaged CD. Either that or you have a 0.1 speed writer... Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\