Plextor 708A CD-TEXT problem

.. --------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
( Reduced to living off the trash? )
( ... my thanks to Tim ... )

(Isn't it a shame Tim cannot post in comp.* cdr groups?)

Tim Kroesen (Pipsqueak) "Ummmmmm"-ed:

snip moaning

Stop that moaning sicko!

Did you get ecstatic seeing these Mikey's words, sicko?

================================================== ==================
Howard Kaikow wrote:
Clive (Pipsqueak) squeaked:

Why the hell cant anyone produce reliable packet writing software
(and I dont mean the flaws in the format) but the software itself?

The problem is not the format, it is the inept implementation of the
standards.

==========================================
Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (iv)
==========================================

"the fault is not with the software but with the format"

( An MS MVP not only swallowed the above cockamamie hook, )
( line and sinker, but actively spreads the garbage! )

=====================
From: Mike Richter (Friggin' Scum)
Subject: UDF, Packet Writing, and Backups
Date: 4/27/01

The format is fragile; the fault is not in the software per se.

In fact, the overwhelming majority of the complaints about
any UDF software are about the format, but the format is seen
through the software which gets the blame ...
=====================


---------------------------
Wow! What a Friggin' ****!
---------------------------

( BTW, have you ever communicated with OSTA about what you call
the "faults" of fixed-length packet format?

Asking because you won't least a bit squeamish communicating with
Plextor and Andy McFadden, letting them know their supposed errant
ways -- and made that fact public! )

.. --------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)


Tim Kroesen (Pipsqueak) "Ummmmmm"-ed:

snip moaning

Stop that moaning you sicko!

Did you get ecstatic seeing these Mikey's words, sicko?

================================================== ===================
Howard Kaikow wrote:
Clive (Pipsqueak) squeaked:

Why the hell cant anyone produce reliable packet writing software
(and I dont mean the flaws in the format) but the software itself?

The problem is not the format, it is the inept implementation of the
standards.

=========================================
Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (v)
=========================================

"the fault is not with the software but with the format"

( An MS MVP not only swallowed the above cockamamie hook, )
( line and sinker, but actively spreads the garbage! )

=================================================
From: Mike Richter (Friggin' Scum)
Date: 2/5/02

The faults of fixed-length packets are in the format,
not in the specific software which implements UDF.
=================================================

---------------------------
Wow! What a Friggin' ****!
---------------------------

( BTW, have you ever communicated with OSTA about what you call
the "fragility" of fixed-length packet format?

Asking because you won't least a bit squeamish communicating with
Plextor and Andy McFadden, letting them know their supposed errant
ways -- and made that fact public! )

--------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)


Tim Kroesen (Pipsqueak) "Ummmmmm"-ed:

snip moaning

Stop that moaning sicko!

Did you get ecstatic seeing these Mikey's words, sicko?

================================================== ==================
Howard Kaikow wrote:

Why the hell cant anyone produce reliable packet writing software
(and I dont mean the flaws in the format) but the software itself?

The problem is not the format, it is the inept implementation of the
standards.

=========================================
Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (i)
=========================================

"the fault is not with the software but with the format"

( An MS MVP not only swallowed the above cockamamie hook, )
( line and sinker, but actively spreads the garbage! )

==============================
From: Mike Richter
Date: 12/15/01
Subject: Files Disappeared From CDRW DIsc.......

Suddenly i find myself among those who are having BIG problems
with Roxios crappy software, after a reasonable amount of small
problems with it, i insert a cdrw with files on it (jpegs) and
tried to burn a few more onto it only to find Roxio software
thinks it is either, corrupted, unrecognized data or need
formatting(?)

only one file remains on the disc, the others are GONE.

My guess is that you used DCD and you have now joined
the crowd of users who have learned that

fixed-length packets are the least reliable and
most fragile format you can write to CD.

Incidentally, the fault is not with the software but with
the format and the medium.
==============================

---------------------------
Wow! What a Friggin' ****!
---------------------------

Why the "What a Friggin' ****!"?

When Mikey was shilling for Take Two, supposedly a backup software, it
must use supposedly faulty, fragile packet writing format to work
"ideally"!!!

=======================
From: Mike Richter (Acraptec Shill)
Subject: A note on Take Two
Date: 9/1/99

For Take Two to work ideally, your drive must support
packet writing and you must have DCD installed...to do it.

You may back up ... to a DCD-formatted erasable.
=======================

Note also that the supposedly faulty, fragile packet writing format was
good enough for BACKUP, of all things, even when combined with
supposedly flaky, fragile, forgetful, unreliable cd-rw media!

--------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)

--------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)


Tim Kroesen (Pipsqueak) "Ummmmmm"-ed:

snip moaning

Stop that moaning sicko!

Did you get ecstatic seeing these Mikey's words, sicko?

================================================== ==================
Howard Kaikow wrote:

Why the hell cant anyone produce reliable packet writing software
(and I dont mean the flaws in the format) but the software itself?

The problem is not the format, it is the inept implementation of the
standards.

=========================================
Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (i)
=========================================

"the fault is not with the software but with the format"

( An MS MVP not only swallowed the above cockamamie hook, )
( line and sinker, but actively spreads the garbage! )

==============================
From: Mike Richter
Date: 12/15/01
Subject: Files Disappeared From CDRW DIsc.......

Suddenly i find myself among those who are having BIG problems
with Roxios crappy software, after a reasonable amount of small
problems with it, i insert a cdrw with files on it (jpegs) and
tried to burn a few more onto it only to find Roxio software
thinks it is either, corrupted, unrecognized data or need
formatting(?)

only one file remains on the disc, the others are GONE.

My guess is that you used DCD and you have now joined
the crowd of users who have learned that

fixed-length packets are the least reliable and
most fragile format you can write to CD.

Incidentally, the fault is not with the software but with
the format and the medium.
==============================

After blaming all the DirectCD bugs on the faulty "format" like the
above, the Slimy Scum spewed these:

======================
From: Mike Richter (Friggin' Scum)
Date: 4/17/03
Subject: DIRECT CD Formatting and
Problems with ROXIO Direct CD

Roxio's has been the most compliant with the standard

======================
From: Mike Richter (Friggin' ****)
Date: 1/5/04

There is a UDF standard. At least until recently...
only Roxio was fully compliant with it.
======================

Guess the "standard" and the "format" are separate, unrelated entities,
and moreover the standard is not faulty, but the format is. Can't help
but wondering where the format came from. Also wondering if the udf
standard has anything to do with packet writing!

--------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)

--------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)


Tim Kroesen (Pipsqueak) "Ummmmmm"-ed:

snip moaning

Stop that moaning sicko!

Did you get ecstatic seeing these Mikey's words, sicko?

================================================== ==================
Howard Kaikow wrote:

Why the hell cant anyone produce reliable packet writing software
(and I dont mean the flaws in the format) but the software itself?

The problem is not the format, it is the inept implementation of the
standards.

=========================================
Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (i)
=========================================

"the fault is not with the software but with the format"

( An MS MVP not only swallowed the above cockamamie hook, )
( line and sinker, but actively spreads the garbage! )

==============================
From: Mike Richter
Date: 12/15/01
Subject: Files Disappeared From CDRW DIsc.......

Suddenly i find myself among those who are having BIG problems
with Roxios crappy software, after a reasonable amount of small
problems with it, i insert a cdrw with files on it (jpegs) and
tried to burn a few more onto it only to find Roxio software
thinks it is either, corrupted, unrecognized data or need
formatting(?)

only one file remains on the disc, the others are GONE.

My guess is that you used DCD and you have now joined
the crowd of users who have learned that

fixed-length packets are the least reliable and
most fragile format you can write to CD.

Incidentally, the fault is not with the software but with
the format and the medium.
==============================

After blaming all the DirectCD bugs on the faulty "format", the Slimy
Scum spewed these:

======================
From: Mike Richter (Friggin' Scum)
Subject: Keeping Old Data Disks Readable
Date: 2/28/04

Fixed-length packets create the least reliable, most fragile
format available for writing CDs.

However, they can still be read
if written to the standard (as DCD always has).
======================

---------------------------
Wow! What a Friggin' ****!
---------------------------

The faulty "format" is no problem after all!

--------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)

--------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)


Tim Kroesen (Pipsqueak) "Ummmmmm"-ed:

snip moaning

Stop that moaning sicko!

Did you get ecstatic seeing these Mikey's words, sicko?

================================================== ==================
Howard Kaikow wrote:

Why the hell cant anyone produce reliable packet writing software
(and I dont mean the flaws in the format) but the software itself?

The problem is not the format, it is the inept implementation of the
standards.

=========================================
Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (i)
=========================================

"the fault is not with the software but with the format"

( Graham Mayor (MS MVP) not only swallowed the above cockamamie )
( hook, line and sinker, but actively spreads the garbage! )

==============================
From: Mike Richter
Date: 12/15/01
Subject: Files Disappeared From CDRW DIsc.......

Suddenly i find myself among those who are having BIG problems
with Roxios crappy software, after a reasonable amount of small
problems with it, i insert a cdrw with files on it (jpegs) and
tried to burn a few more onto it only to find Roxio software
thinks it is either, corrupted, unrecognized data or need
formatting(?)

only one file remains on the disc, the others are GONE.

My guess is that you used DCD and you have now joined
the crowd of users who have learned that

fixed-length packets are the least reliable and
most fragile format you can write to CD.

Incidentally, the fault is not with the software but with
the format and the medium.
==============================

After blaming all the DirectCD bugs on the faulty "format", the Slimy
Scum spewed these:

======================
From: Mike Richter (Friggin' Scum)
Subject: Keeping Old Data Disks Readable
Date: 2/28/04

Fixed-length packets create the least reliable, most fragile
format available for writing CDs.

However, they can still be read
if written to the standard (as DCD always has).
======================

---------------------------
Wow! What a Friggin' ****!
---------------------------

The faulty "format" is no problem after all!

Wonder whatever happened to all those DirectCD bugs Mikey weaseled out
with "the least reliable and most fragile format" cockamamie, like this
one:

==============================
From: Mike Richter
Date: 12/15/01
Subject: Files Disappeared From CDRW DIsc.......

Suddenly i find myself among those who are having BIG problems
with Roxios crappy software, after a reasonable amount of small
problems with it, i insert a cdrw with files on it (jpegs) and
tried to burn a few more onto it only to find Roxio software
thinks it is either, corrupted, unrecognized data or need
formatting(?)

only one file remains on the disc, the others are GONE.

My guess is that you used DCD and you have now joined
the crowd of users who have learned that

fixed-length packets are the least reliable and
most fragile format you can write to CD.

Incidentally, the fault is not with the software but with
the format and the medium.
==============================

Wonder why the disappeared data could not be read then ???!!!

-------------------------------
Mikey, you are a Friggin' ****!
-------------------------------

--------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)


Tim Kroesen (Pipsqueak) "Ummmmmm"-ed:

snip moaning

Stop that moaning sicko!

Did you get ecstatic seeing these Mikey's words, sicko?

================================================== ==================
Howard Kaikow wrote:

Why the hell cant anyone produce reliable packet writing software
(and I dont mean the flaws in the format) but the software itself?

The problem is not the format, it is the inept implementation of the
standards.

=========================================
Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (i)
=========================================

"the fault is not with the software but with the format"

( Graham Mayor (MS MVP) not only swallowed the above cockamamie )
( hook, line and sinker, but actively spreads the garbage! )

==============================
From: Mike Richter
Date: 12/15/01
Subject: Files Disappeared From CDRW DIsc.......

Suddenly i find myself among those who are having BIG problems
with Roxios crappy software, after a reasonable amount of small
problems with it, i insert a cdrw with files on it (jpegs) and
tried to burn a few more onto it only to find Roxio software
thinks it is either, corrupted, unrecognized data or need
formatting(?)

only one file remains on the disc, the others are GONE.

My guess is that you used DCD and you have now joined
the crowd of users who have learned that

fixed-length packets are the least reliable and
most fragile format you can write to CD.

Incidentally, the fault is not with the software but with
the format and the medium.
==============================

After blaming all the DirectCD bugs on the faulty "format", the Slimy
Scum spewed these:

======================
From: Mike Richter (Friggin' Scum)
Subject: Keeping Old Data Disks Readable
Date: 2/28/04

Fixed-length packets create the least reliable, most fragile
format available for writing CDs.

However, they can still be read
if written to the standard (as DCD always has).
======================

---------------------------
Wow! What a Friggin' ****!
---------------------------

The faulty "format" is no problem after all!

Wonder whatever happened to all those DirectCD bugs Mikey weaseled out
with "the least reliable and most fragile format" cockamamie, like this
one:

======================
From: Mike Richter
Subject: Recover files from a CDRW disc?
Date: 10/27/00

I burned a CDRW using DirectCD, everything burned without any
errors and i erased the files from my computer, then i tried
to read some of the files but about 80% of the files cannot be
read

Fixed-length packet writing is the least reliable format
available.
======================

Wonder why 80% of the DirectCD files could not be read then ???!!!

-------------------------------
Mikey, you are a Friggin' ****!
-------------------------------

--------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)


Tim Kroesen (Pipsqueak) "Ummmmmm"-ed:

snip moaning

Stop that moaning sicko!

Did you get ecstatic seeing these Mikey's words, sicko?

================================================== ==================
Howard Kaikow wrote:

Why the hell cant anyone produce reliable packet writing software
(and I dont mean the flaws in the format) but the software itself?

The problem is not the format, it is the inept implementation of the
standards.

=========================================
Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (i)
=========================================

"the fault is not with the software but with the format"

( Graham Mayor (MS MVP) not only swallowed the above cockamamie )
( hook, line and sinker, but actively spreads the garbage! )

==============================
From: Mike Richter
Date: 12/15/01
Subject: Files Disappeared From CDRW DIsc.......

Suddenly i find myself among those who are having BIG problems
with Roxios crappy software, after a reasonable amount of small
problems with it, i insert a cdrw with files on it (jpegs) and
tried to burn a few more onto it only to find Roxio software
thinks it is either, corrupted, unrecognized data or need
formatting(?)

only one file remains on the disc, the others are GONE.

My guess is that you used DCD and you have now joined
the crowd of users who have learned that

fixed-length packets are the least reliable and
most fragile format you can write to CD.

Incidentally, the fault is not with the software but with
the format and the medium.
==============================

After blaming all the DirectCD bugs on the faulty "format", the Slimy
Scum spewed these:

======================
From: Mike Richter (Friggin' Scum)
Subject: Keeping Old Data Disks Readable
Date: 2/28/04

Fixed-length packets create the least reliable, most fragile
format available for writing CDs.

However, they can still be read
if written to the standard (as DCD always has).
======================

---------------------------
Wow! What a Friggin' ****!
---------------------------

The faulty "format" is no problem after all!

Wonder whatever happened to all those DirectCD bugs Mikey weaseled out
with "the least reliable and most fragile format" cockamamie, like this
one:

======================
From: Mike Richter (Friggin' Scum)
Subject: Direct Cd problem
Date: 7/3/02

I was using Direct Cd to load files on a cd when it burped.
Now the cd can't be read by the program or windows.

My guess is that you were writing fixed-length packets

That is the least reliable and most fragile format available
for CD writing.
======================

Wonder why the cd made by DirectCD could not be read then ???!!!

-------------------------------
Mikey, you are a Friggin' ****!
-------------------------------

--------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)

--------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)


Tim Kroesen (Pipsqueak) "Ummmmmm"-ed:

snip moaning

Stop that moaning sicko!

Did you get ecstatic seeing these Mikey's words, sicko?

================================================== ==================
Howard Kaikow wrote:

Why the hell cant anyone produce reliable packet writing software
(and I dont mean the flaws in the format) but the software itself?

The problem is not the format, it is the inept implementation of the
standards.

=========================================
Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (i)
=========================================

"the fault is not with the software but with the format"

( Graham Mayor (MS MVP) not only swallowed the above cockamamie )
( hook, line and sinker, but actively spreads the garbage! )

==============================
From: Mike Richter
Date: 12/15/01
Subject: Files Disappeared From CDRW DIsc.......

Suddenly i find myself among those who are having BIG problems
with Roxios crappy software, after a reasonable amount of small
problems with it, i insert a cdrw with files on it (jpegs) and
tried to burn a few more onto it only to find Roxio software
thinks it is either, corrupted, unrecognized data or need
formatting(?)

only one file remains on the disc, the others are GONE.

My guess is that you used DCD and you have now joined
the crowd of users who have learned that

fixed-length packets are the least reliable and
most fragile format you can write to CD.

Incidentally, the fault is not with the software but with
the format and the medium.
==============================

After blaming all the DirectCD bugs on the faulty "format", the Slimy
Scum spewed these:

======================
From: Mike Richter (Friggin' Scum)
Subject: Keeping Old Data Disks Readable
Date: 2/28/04

Fixed-length packets create the least reliable, most fragile
format available for writing CDs.

However, they can still be read
if written to the standard (as DCD always has).
======================

---------------------------
Wow! What a Friggin' ****!
---------------------------

The faulty "format" is no problem after all!

Wonder whatever happened to all those DirectCD bugs Mikey weaseled out
with "the least reliable and most fragile format" cockamamie, like this
one:

========================================
From: Mike Richter (Friggin' Scum)
Date: 5/7/03

I have been a user of Dell computers and Roxio Direct CD
In all fairness to Dell, I believe the main culprit here is Roxio.

5. I put in a previously formatted cd to be written on, one that
has previously written data, and the Direct CD sreen comes on,
saying the cd is blank.

You appear to be writing fixed-length packets, recognized to be
by far the least reliable and most fragile format available for CD.

The issue is not the software but the format.
============================================

Wonder what's there to read from a blank cd ???!!!

--------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)

--------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)


Tim Kroesen (Pipsqueak) "Ummmmmm"-ed:

snip moaning

Stop that moaning sicko!

Did you get ecstatic seeing these Mikey's words, sicko?

================================================== ==================
Howard Kaikow wrote:

Why the hell cant anyone produce reliable packet writing software
(and I dont mean the flaws in the format) but the software itself?

The problem is not the format, it is the inept implementation of the
standards.

=========================================
Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (i)
=========================================

"the fault is not with the software but with the format"

( Graham Mayor (MS MVP) not only swallowed the above cockamamie )
( hook, line and sinker, but actively spreads the garbage! )

==============================
From: Mike Richter
Date: 12/15/01
Subject: Files Disappeared From CDRW DIsc.......

Suddenly i find myself among those who are having BIG problems
with Roxios crappy software, after a reasonable amount of small
problems with it, i insert a cdrw with files on it (jpegs) and
tried to burn a few more onto it only to find Roxio software
thinks it is either, corrupted, unrecognized data or need
formatting(?)

only one file remains on the disc, the others are GONE.

My guess is that you used DCD and you have now joined
the crowd of users who have learned that

fixed-length packets are the least reliable and
most fragile format you can write to CD.

Incidentally, the fault is not with the software but with
the format and the medium.
==============================

After blaming all the DirectCD bugs on the faulty "format", the Slimy
Scum spewed these:

======================
From: Mike Richter (Friggin' Scum)
Subject: Keeping Old Data Disks Readable
Date: 2/28/04

Fixed-length packets create the least reliable, most fragile
format available for writing CDs.

However, they can still be read
if written to the standard (as DCD always has).
======================

---------------------------
Wow! What a Friggin' ****!
---------------------------

The faulty "format" is no problem after all!

Wonder whatever happened to all those DirectCD bugs Mikey weaseled out
with "the least reliable and most fragile format" cockamamie, like this
one:

=====================
From: Mike Richter (Roxio Shill)
Subject: DirectCD and Corrupted Discs
Date: 12/18/02

I've been using Roxio's Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum for some time
now, but one annoying aspect is that my DirectCD-formatted CD-RW
discs seem to get corrupted after a few months of use.

Fixed-length packets ... are the least reliable and
most fragile format available for CD by a wide margin.

The problem is not with any particular program but
with the format itself.
=====================

Wonder why couldn't the corrupted files be read then ???!!!

--------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------
(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)