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Article #22Re: Tools for dubious audio CDs
From: Rod Speed
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 04:03
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 04:03
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Ken Taylor <ken@co.nz> wrote in message news:P0aY7.7957$_02.853202@news.xtra.co.nz... > I use Adaptec's EasyCD Creator 4, which is much better than earlier versions were. It's been > able to read some pretty dodgy stuff, but I've had problems too with felt-tip bodgied discs. Good point, I've got a copy of 5 somewhere, I'll give that a go. I was attempting the CD copy using a bundled 3.54 and it just stalled forever on the bad tracks. Could try ripping the bad tracks directly too, havent tried that yet. > Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote > > What are people using for looking at dubious burnt audio CDs ? > > > > I've got one that has clearly been burnt on a TDK CD-R Audio blank > > which is fine with the earlier tracks, but wont even play with most of > > the last half of the tracks, even just with mediaplayer with the CDR > > in the burner. Cant copy it with EZCD, endlessly rereads track 9 in > > the very early copy phase where its scanning the tracks. > > Looks very likely the felt tipped pen used to label the CDR has corrupted > > the label, you can see a vague image of one large letter of the label when > > you look in the non label side. While that doesnt occupy half the radial > > distance, and its only a very small part of the outer circumference, likely > > there is more affected than you can see by eye and thats the problem.
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