Copied CD 'scratches'?

[Phil Smittz]

I have a very rare soundtrack CD which I got in 1991. I decided
to make a backup CD copy in case the original ever got lost or
damaged. I made the copy with NERO 5.

When I played back the copy on my CD player the whole thing had
weird scratching noises on the tracks. It seems the louder the music
passages are, the worse the scratching. What's going on?

[Geoffrey]

Post by Phil Smittz
I have a very rare soundtrack CD which I got in 1991. I decided
to make a backup CD copy in case the original ever got lost or
damaged. I made the copy with NERO 5.
When I played back the copy on my CD player the whole thing had
weird scratching noises on the tracks. It seems the louder the music
passages are, the worse the scratching. What's going on?

One of a number of things could have happened:
- the original was scratched
- there was an ATA problem resulting in incorrect writing to the copy
(possibly DMA related, knowing Nero)
- your choice of blank was bad (cheapie green discs do not last, and
many audio players have difficulty reading some types of recordable
discs)


Geoffrey

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[Laurence Payne]

Post by Geoffrey

Post by Phil Smittz
I have a very rare soundtrack CD which I got in 1991. I decided
to make a backup CD copy in case the original ever got lost or
damaged. I made the copy with NERO 5.
When I played back the copy on my CD player the whole thing had
weird scratching noises on the tracks. It seems the louder the music
passages are, the worse the scratching. What's going on?

- the original was scratched
- there was an ATA problem resulting in incorrect writing to the copy
(possibly DMA related, knowing Nero)
- your choice of blank was bad (cheapie green discs do not last, and
many audio players have difficulty reading some types of recordable
discs)

Was this a straightforward whole-disk copy in Nero, or did you extract
the tracks as audio and re-compile a CD? If the latter, you may
have fallen foul of the "enhancement" tools offered by Nero. Turn
them off.

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[Phil Smittz]

Post by Laurence Payne
Was this a straightforward whole-disk copy in Nero, or did you extract
the tracks as audio and re-compile a CD?

I simply put a blank CD (SONY) into my CD drive, called up Nero
and burned the whole disk. I've had this problem before.

[Old Nick]

On 16 May 2004 15:17:02 -0000, Phil Smittz <***@copypress.net>
vaguely proposed a theory
......and in reply I say!:
remove ns from my header address to reply via email

Sorry. I have to say this. Given that "Scratches" were a phenomenon of
the stupid "vinyl revolution" for RAP, maybe you have discovered
something!

Post by Phil Smittz
I have a very rare soundtrack CD which I got in 1991. I decided
to make a backup CD copy in case the original ever got lost or
damaged. I made the copy with NERO 5.
When I played back the copy on my CD player the whole thing had
weird scratching noises on the tracks. It seems the louder the music
passages are, the worse the scratching. What's going on?

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