Can anyone advise me how to connect a Quad 33-303 amplifier/power amplifier to my PC. The record player connects to the amplifier which connects to the power amplifier then to the speakers. There is no headphone socket. Do I try to take the amplifier output signal which goes to the power amplifier(...

Should be OK to replace a plain DVD drive with a DVD burner, right? Drive 2 is a CD/RW, 52x, so I want to keep that. I do watch some DVD movies, the burner s/b fine for that as well as the occasional DVD burning... My main use is still burning CD's and I don't want to give up the speed...

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 05:00:14 +0000, Brian Kraft wrote: smurph wrote in a thread in alt.binaries.vcd.d: I use plain old ISO level 1 with Joliet but I suppose mode 2, XA etc. would work. I always leave the version numbers on, since most PC software appends a ;1...

i'm considering the latest burners from plextor, samsung and liteon. which burns the best on the widest range of media. which is best quality hardware wise. tia.

I was trying to burn a cd with my Nero OEM 5.5 version and a message appeared that I need Nero.dll file. I tried their web page, and all they seem to care about is selling their latest versions, and ignore OEM's. I did a search for this file there and it came back with nothing. Anyone care to send...

I wonder - often i run to a BIN image without a cue file. What is this mode 2048 or 2352? is it similar than mode 1 or mode 2 when creating data CD? I looked at google and there's a lot about how to burn with cue file, but nothing about without it. Now i mostly extract image with WinISO and...

Is there a good way to put a label or some sort of identification on the edges of slimline CD cases? I have tried taping small labels to the edges, but they keep falling off. If you have several slimlines stacked together, how do you identify each one? Thanks

I tried to write a 4GB file to a DVDRW formatted with Ahead's InCD but it gives the error 'Cannot create or replace xxxxx: The parameter is incorrect'. I can fill the full disk capacity as long as any individual file is 2GB or less. I noticed that the same error message is given if I try to write a...

Every time I want to burn a DAO disc in Nero5, with no gaps. I have to highlight all the tracks except the first, choose properties, and set the pause to 0. That is annoying and I want it to be the default. If anyone knows a setting in 5 to fix this, please let me know. Otherwise, is this...

Hi people I just got the Philips DVD RW 824K internal rewriter. It must be pretty new because there's very little info or feedback about it anywhere on the web. Nothing to download even at the philips web site. For now I don't care about DVD - I just bought it to get a high CD-R read speed...

I still have a stack of 16X rated CDR media (Acer brand) and, just for grins, tried one in my new 52X LiteOn burner at 52X and it worked fine; no errors while burning, no errors on verify, no errors when using the disk later. I've since burned about a dozen disk at full speed and never had...

Have tried a few and currently using EazyVCD to rip down to 2 CDR's, (MPEG then Nero to burn). Takes around 2 hours to rip the average movie. Any faster software that will let me rip with a choice of MPEG or AVI as output? -- Kenny "Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs."

I have Nero installed on my machine. However, according to a Microsoft article 315350. The XP writer is actually from Roxio. I like the Nero software better - just personal preference. However, in order to be compatible with my school, I need to use the internal XP software. Is there any way that...

On 6-Jan-2004 David Arnstein posted here that he was able to make a VCD with photos using Nero 5. I just tried it (with Nero 5.5) but was only partially successful. I dragged about 200 JPEGs to the left side of Nero, and burned a VCD. Then with the DVD player connected to my TV I could view...

Is the trial version of Alcohol120% (v.1.4.8.1222) fully functional as compared to the retail version? Thanks in advance.

Hi there I am trying ot get Mike Peters, lead singer of the welsh band The Alarm to the top of the 100 Welsh Heroes list on the BBC Wales web page. Mike is a fantastic entertainer has been in the music business for over 25 years, hes toured with U2, Neil Young and Bob Dylan. Supported Queen at...

How do I test my 4 year old CD burner/readers for dropouts, etc.? Win98SE, HP Pavilion bought in 2000. I just had a perplexing experience. I recently got some TDX, 80 min, 48x, data, CDs. I did a system backup on 4 and have found no problems. But then I tried to use one for a PSP Photo Album...

I don't see this question posted here, or on the FAQ or Mike's CD-R page but I may have missed it. Can a cd-rw that has been formatted (with DirectCD) and used for packet writing be returned to its original pre-formatted state by erasing it in Nero, etc. I don't want to re-format it (either with...

I don't know if I have a problem, or just a complete brain drain. I don't write out to my CD writer very often, so this could just be a brain drain. I'm running Windows XP Pro. When I insert a blank CD-R disk into my ATAPI CD-RW 48x16 drive, shouldn't Windows XP allow me to copy files to the...

I copied 1000's of files onto cd's using directcd 3.5. At the time they were readable. Now, since I upgraded my mb, cdburner, programs , many cd's are not readable. Using windows explorer, I can get the folders and file names but trying to copy them to my hard drive, my system slows to practically...