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Mike Richter, were you born with
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Dr Ratt wrote:

"Packet writing is less reliable than mastering,
thus packet writing is unreliable"

"Packet writing is the least reliable format,
thus packet writing is unreliable"

gotta admit to thinking this myself, til i played around with nero's version
recently - so far no errors at all
my experiences with directcd tainted my view completely as every single disc
i made with it was imperfect


"DirectCD bugs translate into the faults of packet writing"
"DirectCD bugs translate into unreliability of cd-rw media"

A lot of the DirectCD problems that are slimily blamed on the cd-rw
media and the packet writing format are caused by these DirectCD bugs:

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DirectCD 3.05
Fixes

Some older, low-speed recorders cannot correctly write high-speed
rated CD-RW media, but DirectCD would formerly allow you to try.

DirectCD now checks the media and
will reject as appropriate. === FIXED ???

DirectCD 5.3.4
Fixed:

Burn to Ultra High Speed media on non-Ultra High Speed Drives,
no longer allowed === FIX a FIX ???
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This is caused by the above bugs:

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From: "Pierre-Eric COLIN"
Subject: DirectCD is a VERY ROBUST piece of software
Date: 11/12/01

I've read many posts saying horrible things about DirectCD.

THIS IS UNFAIR. It is definitely a very robust piece of software.
And this is not free chating, I've got facts:

I'm using Windows 2000 SP2 and many complain about formatting CDRWs that
does not work.

Well, it works, better it ROCKS. I started a formatting yesterday before
going to sleep. (Thats is because formatting is a fast process taking 1
to 3 hours).

Guess what I found this morning? DirectCD was still up an running,
proudly stating "format in progress, verifying disk..." and the time
elapsed was a nice 10:36:07. That's a very significant amount of time
without crashing, that deserves a warm greeting in the Book of Records
of Toe-Written Software (It must have been written with toes, because
most-if-not-all development systems have macro fixing the lamest bugs,
infinite loops being one of them).

I am sincerely very impressed, because usually, DirectCD behaves in a
very different fashion, it just exits formatting, without logging its
errors, so if you hadn't spent 2 ages 1/2 with your eyes stuck on the
dialogbox, you have no clue of the reason why the whole **** failed.
Indeed this is unfair again, because the error message lasts at least 9
seconds.

So, time for the big bucks question... Tataaaaaaaaaaaa! Do I deserve a
such piece of software ? The answer is NO, period. So I will go
through the undocumented -12 hours- uninstall process, and

trash this uber**** out of my PC.

**** ECDC, **** DirectCD,
**** the developpers,
**** the technical support,
**** Roxio,

they ****ed me!

Don't buy this crap, and if you really want to see it at "work", steal
it.
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