Jeff speaks the truth. His first sentence is the key, and it bears repeating.
"If you extract with EAC but burn with something else, you must use the combined read/write offset." The following site gives simple instructions on how to easily determine your combined read/write offset: http://pages.cthome.net/homepage/eac/setup.htm Greg At 09:21 PM 03/04/02 +0000, you wrote: >Message: 37 >From: "Jeff Silverman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Tim Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Etree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [etree] CDRWin, Feurio!, Nero information >Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 13:48:57 -0500 > >Right...so if you extract with EAC but burn with something else, you must >use the combined read/write offset. In that config, you will always have >one track (either the first or last) with extra or missing samples, >depending on if the combined offset is positive or negative. > >For example, with my CDROM/Burner combo, I have a combined offset of -54. I >get 54 repeated samples in the first track that I extract...the rest of the >tracks are identical to the original. The 54 repeated samples comprise ><0.001 seconds, and they occur in the pregap, where you will never hear them >anyway. So, the audio is unaffected...but you aren't getting an exact copy. > >FWIW...Andre W, the developer, has said on the EAC Yahoo group that, due to >poor/changing documentation from hardware vendors, he is not going to focus >as much on the "burning engine" as he does on the extraction functionality. >Take that for what it's worth...I'm sure there are people out there that >would rather use 1 app to do everything. Personally, I will use EAC to >extract and Fuerio! to burn audio (and Roxio for data/shns). > > >Wherever he goes, the people all complain... > >Rama > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of >Tim Burke >Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:14 PM >To: Etree >Subject: [etree] CDRWin, Feurio!, Nero information > > >Someone posted http://www.ping.be/satcp/eacoffsets02.htm#- this EAC >tutorial to the list earlier. > >For all of you using CDRWin, Feurio! or Nero, though you would be >interested in this quote from the page: > >"Currently Exact Audio Copy is the only software available that can >use the separate write offset correction. Thus if your burner is not >supported by EAC for writing you have to use alternate writing >software like CDRWin, Feurio! or Nero, and are not able to use the >separate read offset correction and write offset correction to make >perfect duplicates of CDs." > >Just thought some of your people would want to know. I do not and >have not used any of these alternate CD burning programs, I am just >reporting to the list this tidbit I came across. > >Tim -- Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://houston.quik.com/phobos _______________________________________________ etree.org etree mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://mail.etree.org/mailman/listinfo/etree Need help? Ask <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
