From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MBgZ0-00019U-FC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:50:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 844E4E0499; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 02:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59EE1E0499 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 02:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E600265F87 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 02:50:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.499 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.499 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.100, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mJyqo-lq-iO9 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 02:50:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A9F65FE7 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 02:50:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MBgYn-0003QA-2M for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:50:37 +0000 Received: from athedsl-374955.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.16.169]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:50:37 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-374955.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:50:37 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Verification of audio CD copy? Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:50:47 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <5bdc1c8b0906021803s357a9dfclb3f9a9b2cf36b9d8@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-374955.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090429) In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0906021803s357a9dfclb3f9a9b2cf36b9d8@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 4a102300-2254-4ce2-b415-adc4775ea3d5 X-Archives-Hash: d19d327be81ccf14bb1c31def6903dd8 Mark Knecht wrote: > I've been using these same machine and same car CD player for years > and everything has always been fine. Now for the last 2-3 months > nearly 50% of what I copy fails. Your recorder might be deteriorating (the laser in them doesn't live forever). You might want to burn at slower speeds, probably 16x or even 8x. Don't go lower than that though, since on fast burners 6x and below result in bad burns again. You might also be dealing with copy protected audio CDs. Do the copies play fine in other players other then the one in the car?