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

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