quoted 4 lines I remember hearing something a while back about (perhaps) a certain
>I remember hearing something a while back about (perhaps) a certain
> >software being able to burn more than 74 minutes onto a CD. I'm
> >currently using Sony HotBurn but have CDRWin and Easy CD Creator
> >available. Any pointers?
Overburning is by no means an easy thing, and right off the bat I'll tell
you that odds are you physically cannot do it.
That being said, here's how you do it:
1) Buy a good cd-r. This is why most people can't overburn. You bought the
HP which is about 3/4 to 1/2 the price of a Yamaha or Plextor, and you saved
the cash, now you know why. You CANNOT burn with lower quality drives. This
may have changed with some newer drives, but in my experience only the
really great drives can do it.
2) Get yourself good media. Don't expect more than a 10 second increase if
you buy bad media (IMO Memorex, etc). My choices: Verbatim (Not too much
overburn time), Sony (pretty good time), Fujitsu (great cds, tres
expensive), and TDK which I havn't actually tried, but have heard from
numerous people that they are good.
3) Get a good program. Don't use Ez-CD Creator, it won't let you overburn.
Don't us CDRWin unless you are very adept at writing good .CUE files (in
which case why are you reading this? :). My choice is Nero burning rom which
although I find is a bit hard to understand at first, it has options up the
ying yang.
4) Burn, and expect a few coasters, and truncated final tracks. This one is
pretty self explanatory. Since you aren't supposed to overburn, there are no
cut and dry rules as to how much each cd will hold. That depends mainly on
the media you use.
There is a site which has a database of overburn times for almost every
blank cd imaginable, and is quite a good knowledge base for this kind of
thing. I don't have the url right now unfortunately.
Anyhow, I hope this clears up anything, and also quells this off-topic
thread before it gains momentum and hijacks the list like so manny errant
threads do.
Paelon
"It's easy to critasize, but you'd be paranoid too if everyone hated you." -
D. J. Hicks
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