If you only want to copy complete discs to bak them up you should get hold
of Exact Audio Copy and use the "copy to image and create cue sheet" option.
This creates a WAV file for the complete disc and the cue sheet tells
whatever app you use to burn the image where to put the track markers. This
method allows you to copy albums where tracks run into each other (such as
live albums) withou breaking them up.
You can burn from cue sheets in nero and the latest version of EAC has a
button for this too (haven't tried it yet).
You can get EAC from www.exactaudiocopy.de/



Cheers
Colin

"RJH" wrote in message
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"Informer" wrote in message
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I started a thread about CD recorders which I found very helpful so this
is
a follow up. Can anyone guide me as to the optimum settings for using
Nero
for copying commercial music CD's. I am plodding through my Nero
Express
manual after getting some high frequency distortion on the odd track so
I
want to make sure everything is tweaked OK. I am using just the
default
settings but in default my output file format is set to MP3 Pro. This
doesn't seem right to me, should I be using wave file as a more
appropriate
setting? How many bits should I be using? Anything else I need to think
about.

Once again I thank all the experts out there.

Do you want to copy entire disks or individual tracks?

If disk, choose 'copy entire disk' from the right hand menu. You *should*
be
OK if your writer and reader are on separate channels (that is, connected
by
separate cables to separate controllers on your motherboard - unlikely but
possible). If they're not I suggest you use the next method ...

If tracks (to make a compilation for example) the best method is a bit
more
complicated - you need to extract the wav data from the original using
EAC.
Then start Nero Express, click Music, Audio CD, then add the tracks you
exported from EAC.

This is just one of many methods, and works best IMO.

Rob