🚀 go-pugleaf

I have been following the theory in this thread with interest, but what
about the practicalities?
Is there any consensus as to what equipment and/or software is needed to
effectively make good copies of CD to CDR?
And what about vinyl? It would be nice to copy vinyl to CDR, for the
convenience of the medium - you cannot play vinyl in the car!
For the latter, I have found it very convenient to copy vinyl on to a NICAM
VCR, which makes it simple to get on the PC via the sound card, but what
about software to break up the material into tracks?
My Creative 32x CD ROM which sounded like a helicopter on take-off has just
failed after only six months and I have replaced it with the much quieter
Creative 36MX  model, so I would be reluctant to replace that with a SCSI
model, so are there any IDE CD-R/RW writers out there that really do what
they are supposed to? How about CD - IDE to CDR/RW - SCSI?
Only 2 of my own circle of friends and acquaintances have CD-R/RW hardware,
and both have been beset with problems. One has 2 Yamaha CD-RW writers but
experiences far too many copy failures for this to be a successful
combination. The other has a Philips CD-RW and the least said about that the
better.
So come on, what does work?
Graham Mayor