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Pastimes : CD Burners Emporium -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (343)	5/28/2001 12:52:16 AM
From: Venkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3937

Not at all...works great..Rider<GRANDSON< is really enjoying Ben Harper and eating choc chip cookies....yummy

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (343)	5/29/2001 10:51:23 AM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3937

Are you getting any digital clicks or feedback on your burns? I use a PC (933 MhZ Pent. III with two CD drives, one for burning) and I have not experienced much of that. I have occasionally had a problem with clicks on things I download from Napster, so sometimes you need to be careful that the source (whether a CD or an online MP3 site) has a good copy. Another thing I noticed is that CD burning (both ripping the music off of CD's onto your hard drive and burning it onto the disks) is something that Windows PC's have tremendous difficulty with in a multitasking environment. What I now do is separate my music computing tasks from other tasks.....when I want to burn a CD, I convert the files to WAV files, listen to it once to make sure the files converted correctly (sometimes they don't), and then turn off all programs and start the burning process. By all programs I mean especially those running in the background (the icons down by the time display)....such as Virus Scan and anything which installed itself to run in the background (for example, Quicken and some of the software used by my scanner). I just right click on all of that stuff and either close or exit the background program as well as all active windows. It is especially important on my PCs to turn off the virus scan, because that program is set to activate periodically to scan for viruses -- and when it does activate, it takes over your computer's processing power momentarily....sometimes enough to make the CD burner buffer the music files too slowly and generate an error message....which ruins the CD in progress. Since doing this, I have not had any CD burns fail, and have not heard any unwanted background noise. In fact, the CD's I have burned lately have sounded just as good as the stuff I buy. (I know you said you have an external burner so I don't know how much of this will apply to your situation).....