Hi everyone

A friend of mine has a cd that she very slightly scratched or something by
putting 2 cds together and she desperately needs another copy for teaching
aerobics. Plus these cds tend to cost upwards of $45 each.

I said I would try and clean up and burn a new one. I need to pick your
brains again everyone...

I know sound quality is always better by sending the music file to the hard
drive first and then to a new cd and burning as slowly as possible.
Is it better to utilise (using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum) the clean
up features; noise removal,
pop removal etc etc(in Soundstream) at the time the songs come off the cd to
the hard drive
or in the process from the hard drive to the new cd or perhaps both.
Any thoughts?
Actually any other suggestions would greatly be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Chris




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Steve & Chris Clark wrote:

Noise removal is not necessary for cd copying - only for analogue
devices (tape, vinyl, etc). If the original is a pressed CD (i.e. not a
"home" copy) then the scratches should come out with a CD repair kit -
as it is unlikely that the data has been damaged. So, clean up the
original and just copy it using CD Creator.

No, this is not the case. A copy of a CD is exactly that - a copy. As it's
a CD, then you are reproducing a digital file. That said, burning a CD from
the hard drive can sometimes be quicker, and on older CD burners there are
fewer potential buffer underrun errors.

This is only really useful for tidying up older recordings, typically live
recordings, audio tape or vinyl. If you're copying a digitally recorded CD,
then it won't have any relevance. And if the CD is damaged to the extent
that the music skips at a certain point, you are unliklely to be able to
recover that particular section. If the CD copying software allows you to
make a copy (if it runs a file verification routine it might stop at that
point), then you will reproduce the skip. Sorry.

If you have the full details of the CD tracks, use a file sharing prog to
dowload a new version and burn that one.

Steve & Chris Clark wrote:

came out.


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Alcohol to clean the cd?....what do you mean and let it create an
image?.....could you or someone elaborate?
thanks
Chris


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excellent advice
thanks
Chris

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"Palindrome" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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Yes it is an original CD.....I didn't realise a CD repair kit exists.....any
computer shop?
Is this very expensive? What do you have to do to repair? is it liquid?
can you explain just a bit more.
Thanks
Chris
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Steve & Chris Clark wrote:

out scratches on the non-label side. It has two bottles, one each of
coarse and fine polish. Yes it works. It also works on dye media but
not, obviously, if the very fragile label side containing the dye layer
is damaged. Not high tech - you just put a drop of the liquid on the
cloth supplied and rub away for a few minutes. It also works on
scratched eye-glasses (plastic lenses) but don't use it if they are
coated (unless you want to remove the coating)! Amazingly it also seems
to work with very deep scratches - by removing the built-up material on
the edges of the scratch, which seem to matter more than the scratch
itself.

Does anyone know what Jeroen is talking about here?


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Makes perfect sense to me. It is good advice. Of course it helps to know
that 120% Alcohol is a brand of CD authoring software..

Oh for crying out loud......
thanks Palindrome!
Chris

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Hey Palindrome
I've got the cd repair kit you mentioned with no instructions. I had heard
that cds are only supposed to be rubbed from the centre to the outward edge
and not in a circular motion as was for a vinyl......is this correct?
What is the best way to polish......
thanks
C

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IME it doesn't seem to matter. I rub at right angles to the scratch.
Works for me..

thanks......you should see the scratches on this thing though.....I think
I'm doomed.....
thanks again for all the help
Chris

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<g> sometimes it's easy to overlook that not everyone's familiar with
the common range of cd burning apps.

Alcohol is at the moment the best application for difficult copy jobs.
http://www.alcohol-software.com/index.php
free trial available.

Wow.....this is a stroke of luck! I may have to use this trial.
Thanks.

By the way......"spamfighter"....brings me to another totally off topic
question for this thread.......
what are the best ways you've found to fight spam seeing as that's your
alias name.....excellent!
Any thoughts?
Thanks again
Chris


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Yeah, standard client side filtering is useless. Only thing that works
is dnsbl filtering.

My personal solution was to install a linux server with postfix
mailserver on it. That filters using several dnsbl filters. Mail that
gets trough that check is then subjected to several keyword checks in
the body. After that I only get about 2-4 spams per day.

Other people are fond of spam assasin which combines the method
mentioned above but is also able to "learn" what spam is.

DNSBL means that the sending server's IP is checked against a list. If
the ip is listed there the mail is rejected. DNSBLs are available
based on several criteria such as well known spam source, geographic
location, open relay etc.

Here's some stats for an average week on my server:

1468 received
280 delivered
0 forwarded
2 deferred (185 deferrals)
0 bounced
1186 rejected (80%)
0 reject warnings
0 held
0 discarded (0%)

Delivered is what actually reaches the inbox. Rejections are spams and
virii combined.

Jeroen

"Steve & Chris Clark" <swampclarks2@sprint.cayourpants> wrote in
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here's an idea... my local DVD rental shop has a polisher that he uses,
and he also charges costumers like 2 bucks to "fix" there personal cds.

maybe you can call around and find someone that does the same!

good luck!
PackRat2112