Copying and burning CDs with Windows Media Player 9?

Jan 18, 2004 at 9:16 PM Post #31 of 45
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Originally posted by markl
Welly,
I keep getting "invalid field in parameter list" every time I try to write to my CD-R. Any idea what that might mean?


Sorry to say, this is not an EAC specific problem, but a problem with the CD-R drive. I've seen that error pop up in different programs. Note that your CD-R drive may or may not be supported in EAC. If it isn't, just burn the WAV files using another program. Unless you're super picky with read and write offsets, EAC's burning feature is nothing special, it's strength is in its ripping.
 
Jan 18, 2004 at 9:54 PM Post #32 of 45
I'll have to try the Sonic program to burn because WMP won't do it, I already tried it. When I convert my CDs to .wav files for burning by a different program, do I use the top icon on the left, "Wave" or do I use the "Image" icon?

I'll try it again after football. Thanks Welly and davei for the help!
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Jan 18, 2004 at 10:10 PM Post #33 of 45
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Originally posted by markl
I'll have to try the Sonic program to burn because WMP won't do it, I already tried it. When I convert my CDs to .wav files for burning by a different program, do I use the top icon on the left, "Wave" or do I use the "Image" icon?

I'll try it again after football. Thanks Welly and davei for the help!
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Select Wave. If you use image, you'll end up with one big useless WAV file
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Jan 19, 2004 at 8:17 PM Post #35 of 45
Well, I finally had success. The verdict is in, the EAC .wav files do sound better than the Windows Media Player "Lossless" files. However, the EAC .wavs still aren't as good as the original, let alone "better" as claimed by the Genesis Labs article, and yes, I'm using my fancy black CD-Rs.
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Anyway, thanks especially to Welly for the help. Cheers.
 
Jan 20, 2004 at 4:03 AM Post #36 of 45
Welly, if I want to use EAC to make an exact copy but I have two drives is it possible to skip the step in which it copies the disc to my hard drive?
 
Jan 20, 2004 at 5:10 AM Post #37 of 45
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Originally posted by Watchdog
Welly, if I want to use EAC to make an exact copy but I have two drives is it possible to skip the step in which it copies the disc to my hard drive?


Nope.
 
Jan 20, 2004 at 5:22 AM Post #38 of 45
Addressing a point made a while back... You can find high-quality Fuji CD-rs (T-Ys). Just look on the spindles for made in Japan (rather than made in Taiwan). These are mostly found in 50 and 30 pack spindles.
 
Jan 20, 2004 at 5:52 PM Post #40 of 45
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Originally posted by dsavitsk
there are versions of linux which will run from a live cd. my suggestion would be to download one of these (i.e. knoppix) and skip windows altogether.

-d


What does this have to do with EAC or WMP9?
 
Jan 20, 2004 at 8:42 PM Post #41 of 45
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Originally posted by davei
What does this have to do with EAC or WMP9?


What it has to do with EAC and WMP9 is it is an effective way to bypass them both. By running off of a live cd, one can utilize the cd burning capabilities built in to the linux distribution while not installing anything over the harddrive (this is what running off of a live cd means). That is, you sit down, boot the computer into linux via the cdrom, do your burning, and then take the linux cd with you. when the computer's owner comes back, he finds it exactly how he left it with no trace that it ever ran a different os.

-d
 
Jan 20, 2004 at 9:35 PM Post #42 of 45
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Originally posted by dsavitsk
What it has to do with EAC and WMP9 is it is an effective way to bypass them both. By running off of a live cd, one can utilize the cd burning capabilities built in to the linux distribution while not installing anything over the harddrive (this is what running off of a live cd means). That is, you sit down, boot the computer into linux via the cdrom, do your burning, and then take the linux cd with you. when the computer's owner comes back, he finds it exactly how he left it with no trace that it ever ran a different os.


... yet you're recommending Linux to someone who can't figure out how to configure EAC on his own. Methinks you didn't read the entire thread.

- Chris
 
Jan 21, 2004 at 12:44 AM Post #43 of 45
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Originally posted by minya
... yet you're recommending Linux to someone who can't figure out how to configure EAC on his own. Methinks you didn't read the entire thread.

- Chris


You stole my response!!!!

My rule of thumb is, if I need to recommend a Linux distro to someone who ordinarily uses Windows, it's not for them
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Jan 21, 2004 at 3:41 AM Post #44 of 45
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Originally posted by minya
... yet you're recommending Linux to someone who can't figure out how to configure EAC on his own. Methinks you didn't read the entire thread.


I guess, after looking at the laundry list of things that needed to be done to get windows to burn a cd, i thought linux might be easier in this case. I am not meaning to be a partisan here, I don't tend to use linux at all,* but really, knoppix is pretty simple as is copying a cd under linux. Indeed, the joy of knoppix is that there isn't any configuration

So, I guess I think that the ease of use here does not seem to be window's strong point. There are certainly things about linux which can be difficult or require special knowledge, but i don't think any of them are implicated here.

Oh well, to each his own.

-d


* I am a FreeBSD user which I would not recommnd for its simplicity.
 
Jan 21, 2004 at 4:59 PM Post #45 of 45
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Originally posted by dsavitsk
I guess, after looking at the laundry list of things that needed to be done to get windows to burn a cd, i thought linux might be easier in this case. I am not meaning to be a partisan here, I don't tend to use linux at all,* but really, knoppix is pretty simple as is copying a cd under linux. Indeed, the joy of knoppix is that there isn't any configuration

So, I guess I think that the ease of use here does not seem to be window's strong point. There are certainly things about linux which can be difficult or require special knowledge, but i don't think any of them are implicated here.

Oh well, to each his own.

-d


* I am a FreeBSD user which I would not recommnd for its simplicity.


Ah, but you forgot you'd have to burn a knoppix CD through Windows, which would double your complications
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