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Topic: IsoBuster vs old CD-R (Read 2825 times) previous topic - next topic
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IsoBuster vs old CD-R

Hello.

Has any of you any experience regarding recovery of old CD-Rs with IsoBuster?

I recentely gor a 2005 demo on CD-R and EAC was flashing read errors for few hours, any chance IsoBuster would make a niec image of the disc and trying to correct those errors?

IsoBuster vs old CD-R

Reply #1 –
IsoBuster is better suited to handling data (or multi-session) CDs than audio CDs. Assuming you're talking about an audio (and only audio) CD, read errors are most likely due to damage on the disc surface (reside, smudges, scratches, etc).

Try cleaning the disc or using a device like SkipDr if they are shallow scratches.

IsoBuster vs old CD-R

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Zarggg on
IsoBuster is better suited to handling data (or multi-session) CDs than audio CDs. Assuming you're talking about an audio (and only audio) CD, read errors are most likely due to damage on the disc surface (reside, smudges, scratches, etc).

Try cleaning the disc or using a device like SkipDr if they are shallow scratches.


Audio CD only, or thr audio part of multisession CD. The problem I have with old CD-Rs most likely degradation of media, and recentely an old CD, that it likely due to scratches.

IsoBuster vs old CD-R

Reply #3 –
Try EAC after you configure it.
Be a false negative of yourself!

IsoBuster vs old CD-R

Reply #4 –
There really isn't much you can do when some medium is in physically bad shape. If EAC's secure mode plus highest error correction settings do not work, your best bet would be EAC's burst mode (which sometimes gives better results than more sophisticated configuration options, especially when your problem are scratches) or using another drive for ripping (preferably an older one). After ripping thousands of CDs it's my experience that these two things are the only ones that are likely to improve your result.

IsoBuster vs old CD-R

Reply #5 –
I would try different ripping programs before attempting to exhaust EAC's setting combinations.  Burst mode, secure mode with C2 pointers (assuming the drive is capable), and secure mode without C2 pointers would be the extent of it, unless there is some other combination of settings known to work well with a specific drive.

This is not to say I discourage learning through experimentation.

IsoBuster vs old CD-R

Reply #6 –
Good point! Turning on/off C2 never hurts!

IsoBuster vs old CD-R

Reply #7 –
The number of sectors per read changes depending on whether C2 pointers are provided.  Because of this the drive will be asked to start at different locations on the disc when ripping, which could make a difference with troublesome discs.

IsoBuster vs old CD-R

Reply #8 –
My bet is to get hold of a (preferably SCSI) Plextor CD reader. Not a modern one, but the original. These are great!

Just try different drives. Sometimes a cheap drive will read them perfectly while an 'expensive' drive won't.