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Topic: What's wrong? The recorder or CD-RW media? (Read 2350 times) previous topic - next topic
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What's wrong? The recorder or CD-RW media?

I burnt a CD-RW disc from wav files (With Feurio 1.66) with my Lite-ON LTR-48246S and it wasn't a good burn. (CD-RW media - Verbatim DataLifePlus by MITSUBISHI). To check the quality of the burnt CD-RW I ripped it to my HDD (with EAC) and checked the tracks - their sizes were quite different!!! 
1. I used Test & Copy sel. tr.
2. The Secure Extraction Method was checked, but it somehow automatically was changed to Burst. (???)
3. When I tried to change to Secure mode it made an eternal Error Correction from the beginning of the first track and didn't want to go further.
4. I firstly ripped these tracks from an original CD in Secure mode (to HDD) and everything was OK.

I didn't try this new CD-RW recoder at all... Does this test means that it is broken or something like that ? What should I do? (Or maybe (I hope so) smth. is wrong with CD-RW media? (It is x2-x4 from 2000 year, but wasn't burnt even 3 times...)

What's wrong? The recorder or CD-RW media?

Reply #1 –
Enable C2 error reporting in Feurio and rip the WAVs with it.
If there is no c2 error, the quality of that CD for that reader, is enough. Of course, reading at slow speeds will produce less c2 errors.

I think that your Teac 40x also reports c2 errors.

Probably, that CDRW is died. And Verbatim CDRW are very good quality, so that means that CDRW is not a reliable storage media. It's also incompatible with most players.

What's wrong? The recorder or CD-RW media?

Reply #2 –
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To check the quality of the burnt CD-RW I ripped it to my HDD (with EAC) and checked the tracks - their sizes were quite different!!! 

What do you mean, 'the sizes were different'? Is it possible that extra pauses were added by feurio (like nero would do). That would clarify things.

Your question seems very interesting, but I am afraid it is not very clear ...

What's wrong? The recorder or CD-RW media?

Reply #3 –
MusicLover:

I also have a new LTR-48246S and I can tell you that it's certainly not a crap burner. Unless you were unlucky and got a defective drive...

I agree that it must be your CD-RW playing up. Try some decent CD-R media - I get 100% matching CRCs comparing rips off original CDs with rips off CD-R copies.