In message , Laurence Payne
writes
On Wed, 31 May 2006 09:26:01 +0100, Derrick Fawsitt
wrote:

Finally, up to now I have always used EAC, (Exact Audio Copy), but
although I found it did not let me down, I found the interface puzzling
every time I came back to it to make a copy.
You ask "why didn't I make a simple disk copy", that is exactly what I
set out to do so can you tell me the best way to do exactly that, mind
you, I have lost confidence in PC copies, hence my desire now, (having
lost my chance to get some good copies), to resort to a stand alone CD
burner or copier.
Sorry about all the rigmarole above but I felt it necessary to spell out
all the processes I went through and still ended up with no certain
copies of a lovely library of music.


The Yamaha CDR-HD1500 will work. But so will a properly working £20
burner on your computer. And the HD1500 is a very expensive solution,
with considerable disadvantages over a computer.
But won't it also record from DAB radio, in my case I would find it so
useful for recording disks and concerts from the Proms etc.

I wonder what went wrong? The burner may indeed be faulty. More
likely is a bad batch of media.
I ran out of Benq blanks half way through my project and used Imation,
both have faults here and there.
Other possibilities are attempting to
perform other tasks while burning the CD,
No, definitely not.
or burning at too high a
speed.
Now that I cannot tell you or remember but it was set to select the
optimum speed itself.

Do your bad copies refuse to play on the computer that made them, or
just on domestic hi-fi players? There may yet be hope :-)
I have just played an offending track on my PC, same horrible noise as
though the needle had jumped or I had come to the end of the LP and
forgot to take up the arm. Also starts jumping to the next track.
In other words, as the chap in Dad's army says, "I am doomed, doomed",
and at one time, I did panic.
Nothing more I can do except thank you all and continue to leave the
"dead bodies" with a friend to bury them where I cannot see them.

I am still foolish enough to buy that Yamaha, I need someone to hold me
back.

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Derrick Fawsitt