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Burning a CD

I recently made copies of several hard to find CD's (Lyrita Label) loaned by a friend using my home computer CD burner. I have noticed over a several month period that the recordings seem to be degrading; I am getting a jittering sound. I am using what I think are decent CD's (Imation), and wondered if this is a common problem and what it's cause might be. I am pretty sure it is not my CD player as all commercially made recordings are playing flawlessly. In general I prefer to buy either new or used CD's so I have the liner notes etc, but sometimes that's not an option and I really would like to be able to do this without problems arising later when I no longer have access to that hard to find recordings. Any ideas of where to start.
bioman
memeboy
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To obtain better results, on my computers in the past I slowed down the read speed to 1x and the recording speed to 1x. But with my new computer, I seem to have no control over the read speed and not much control over the burning speed. Does anyone know how to gain control of those two settings? [XP Home OS]
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rives
953 posts
 
Memeboy: It's controlled by the software you use. I'm using Nero, and there's a box that allows you to select the speed. By the way, I've had much better results with Nero than I ever did with Adaptec. It really is a remarkable program (but I must warn those with Windows XP--it's not that easy to get it working--it will work but it takes time due to burn rights security issues and a few other glitches I went through). I did just buy a new burner as well. It the Yamaha CRW-F1 available at buy.com. So far I'm very impressed with it--it can burn very fast and I'm starting to experiment with higher speeds for personal use. For masters--I will still do 1x.
sidssp
1,077 posts
 
I use Easy CD Creator 5 with Memorex blanks. I have burn over 100 with only a handful of failures. I burn at 2x speed which is the slowest Easy CD Creator allows.

I remember reading a review somewhere which compared a number of CD blanks for data drop out. It says Yamaha blanks are the best but I have never been able to find any on the market. Anyone knows of any source?
aball
2,018 posts
 
I looked for Yamaha blanks too but to no avail. I read perhaps the same thing you did, stating Yamaha was the best. I think Fujifilm was #2 or so and you can only find those at CVS(!?). Easy CD creator is what I also use and never have any problems. Great little program.
bioman OP
44 posts
 
I am going to try using 1x or 2x in the future and see if this solves the issue. The CD's started out sounding good and ended up sounding bad after as little as 6 months, but I was recording and burning at 8X. Also, my experience with the real cheepo CD's such as the $10 for 100 varieties were that they are totally un-useable. Thanks for all the helpfull suggestions.
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