X-No-Archive: Yes They're supposed to last about 1,000 times, but they don't last 5% that in my experience. I only use CD-RW in mastering mode (no packet write) and I have realized that they start degrading after about 10 uses. It continues to write fine and you have no way of knowing. The...

When playing a track from any audio cd on sony 52x52x52x i get one side way down...however, when playing a wav file from the hard drive, left to right balance is perfect win xp, ms media player 9 what could be causing this???? thanks for your reply relloman

I had a cd-rw with some files on it. I wanted to get rid of those files and put on a new batch of jpgs. So I formatted the cd with XP program and then when i went to copy those jpgs to this recently formatted disk, i get a message that its write protected. Get rid of it first." I never had this...

I am looking at this external DVD recorder and wondered if anyone could recommend it or are there any problems that anyone has experienced or heard about, with this model/brand? I found it at this...

Hi I was wondering if someone could explain in simple terms how to put in gaps between tracks in a downloaded album. I have a 60mb album which I have downloaded, which has about 10 tracks. I have Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum, which offers the track splitting facility, but I have NO clue how to use...

This is not the CD-Recordable Frequently Asked Questions posting, but rather a pointer to it. I'm posting this because there may be propagation problems with the FAQ (it's rather large for a Usenet posting), and some sites have automatic filters that think it's spam. This is also going out to...

windrv.com site seems to be gone and while that program was released two years ago, I'm unable to get it and not even google or yahoo is any help. If anyone has it or knows where to get it, please let me know by posting a reply as I would like to try that program out as I am interested in...

Staples is having a sale on a 50 pack of Maxell CDRs - 700 - 80 minutes - 48x for $9.94. Everything on their site that seems comparable is about twice as much. Are these a good deal? Thanks. Louise

Why won't my cd player start playing a music CD automatically? I have to go to the Windows explorer and click on the music file to get it to play. Tdubya

I just bought my first DVD burner - the Plextor 716A - and was wondering if there's a consensus as to the best burning software to use with Plextor drives. It came with Plextools Pro and Roxio. Right now I use Nero for CD burning so I'm also thinking of upgrading to Nero 6 which includes...

My backup HD is in the same tower with my main HD. It turns on when the computer turns on--naturally! What I'd like to do is turn on the backup HD only to add or subtract information, then have it turn off so that it doesn't contribute heat and doesn't wear out. Is there a simple way to do this...

' --------------------------------------------- Mike Richter: CD-R FAQ makes a Common Mistake --------------------------------------------- ====================== From: Mike Richter Date: 9/16/01 the FAQ makes a common mistake in that section,

I had a power failure while writing a CD-RW and I cant erase what was written. When I insert the disc the drive locks up and XP locks up. Is there a way to erase this thing? I tried Safe Mode and it didnt work

Looking at the new Plextor which writes at 8x but Google search couldn't find a UK supplier for 8x discs. Where can they be bought? -- Kenny

Is there a simple program that can read a CD-R and tell who its manufacturer was? I believe EAC has this feature, but its a bit of overkill. Thanks Deke -- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:19:00 +0200, "Edvard Ringen" wrote: "jardinero" wrote in message ... MHz Tweaker wrote in...

Hi.. I bought new Mercury CDR 54/32/54. It is configured as master on the secoundary IDE I'm using Windows XP. 1.4 Gig Duron and Shuttle board. The tray works, light comes on but does'nt auto start, read etc. When I go into 'my computer' there is no reading that it has a disk. When you put a disk...

Hi, When I try to drag or copy files to a fully or quick formatted disc I get the message: "Error writing the disc in E:\. Please confirm that the disc is compatible with the drive and is not scratched or damaged". I've tried it with three different brands of 1x to 4x speed CD-RW discs, and...

I am using Easy Cd Creator 5. I have one big mp3 file but it has many songs on it. I like to separate them into tracks for each song. When I click Track. Split Tracks is dimmed out and I can't use that feature. Only feature I can use is preview and all other features are dimmed out. Why? How can...

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