Two great programs, each of which is free. First, express burn. This
is free although a previous poster stated there was a cost. The free
version is limited to noncommercial use and will not burn video DVDs.
Another great free program which will do exactly what you want is
Burnaware. Google as I do not recall the url. The reason I prefer this
is because it has a utility which tells you the exact type of disc which
is in your drive, in addition to which it tells whether the disc is
empty, etc.
Don Roberts
On 6/1/2011 6:20 AM, Barry Chapman wrote:
Thanks Dane. At least this message is a little more constructive than your
previous one.
I was hoping for a program where you can insert a CD, specify how many copies
are wanted and it is all pretty automatic from there.
I have looked briefly at EAC, but it seems more complicated than that. The
specs seem to indicate that it is mainly an audio
grabber rather than a CD copier. The person who would be doing the copying is
not particularly computer literate, so I wanted it to
be as simple as possible.
Someone mentioned Nero Express. The organisation has that program, but I
didn't think it was all that accessible. I use Nero
Burning ROM myself, but as you suggest, I think it would be overkill for them.
I'll take another look at Nero Express to see what I
can work out.
Thanks,
Barry Chapman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan"<grtd...@internode.on.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List"<pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: CD copying recommendation needed
Well using Nero and things like that would just seem to over complicate things
in my opinion.
I use Exact Audio Copy to copy CD'S and I can handle more than 1 copy at once
though it may be that you might consider a small CD
duplicating system just to make things easier.
Anyway back to EAC, it can read from a cue/wave pair so that's the contents of
your CD, the WAVE is the audio and the cue sheet
defines where audio tracks begin and end on the CD itself.
Most sound editors these days including Goldwave are capable of producing these
files so once you have a pair? Well its just a
matter of feeding that to EAC, inserting a CD, pressing a button and letting
EAC do its stuff.
I'd imagine you'd only have to do a small number of CD's would that be right? I
mean most people have the Internet so they could
download say through a Podcast system etc.
The other advantage of using a Cue Wave pair is that you could upload it to a
file sharing site - say Dropbox - and have other
people work on the project, say other people copy the CD in other states as
well as your own.
Just a thought
On 01/06/2011, at 9:33 PM, Barry Chapman wrote:
A small blindness organisation has asked me to recommend a program for copying
their quarterly audio newsletter. I know there are
many programs which will do this, but I am looking for something without bells
and whistles which will simply do the following and
is accessible and easy to use.
1. Can read a CD to temporary storage on hard disk.
2. Can produce a specified number of exact copies of the CD. That is, if 20
copies are specified, eject each CD once copied and
prompt for the next until the 20 copies have been made.
3. Has an option to specify the write speed.
4. Has an option to verify that the disk has been written correctly.
5. The program is fairly inexpensive or preferably free.
Note that it needs to do an exact copy of the disk rather than track by track,
since there aren't gaps between the tracks on the
original, so they don't want them on the copies.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Barry Chapman
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