"Julian Fowler" wrote in message

On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 00:31:13 +0000, Laurence Payne
wrote:

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 21:04:00 -0000, "Informer"
wrote:


Did you try simply copying it as data?

No only tried Audio CD

Anyway the deed is done now, sometimes simple solutions are best
when technology has defeated me!


The simple solution may have been to simply copy the cd in it's
entirety as data, not try to rip the tracks then reconstruct an audio
cd, as I suspect you may have done.

????

I think this would be what I call an image copy. It's what the full disc
copy facilities of most commercial burning programs (Nero, EZ-CD) do with
audio or data discs.

Copying an audio CD as data is one of the sure ways of *not* getting
an accurate copy.

I see a bit of a communications break down.

I fail to see why the following is so difficult:

- use EAC, in secure mode, to extract audio data from CD to .wav files
on HDD

Agreed. Been there done that many times and it worked stunningly well.

- use EAC or CDRWIN or Nero or Feurio or (insert your preferred
mastering program now) to burn an audio disc from the extracted .wav
files

Agreed. Been there done that many times and it worked stunningly well. I've
even done it with EZ-CD and CoolEdit Pro.

However, I ,might call this "copying an audio CD as data".

The advantage of ripping separate tracks is the ability to do compendiums of
multiple discs. That means mixing and matching tracks from different CDs,
including producing CDs that are actually close to full with more like full
80 minutes of music instead of the usual 30 or so minutes.

The advantage of image copies is that its the simplest way to handle a real
world disc that might be DAO or TAO or even a functional hybrid of the two,
and might even have some data tossed in ("Multimedia content").