From Jeremy A.Smith Sent Wed, Feb 17th 1999, 16:30
From Jeremy A.Smith Sent Wed, Feb 17th 1999, 16:30
> i had an pretty long post warning people about cductive a few months back. > they have no idea what theyre doing...it took three trys and a month and a > half of time to get proper burns of the two cds i ordered (at $23 apiece). > they gave me a 'free' cd to pay be back, but it was as fucked up as the > first two pairs they sent me (and was never replaced). > > someone responded to my post saying that some cds they had bought worked in > some players but not in others (or only in their cd rom drive or some such > nonsense) but for the prices cductive are asking, they should play in any > kind of player i put them in (for the record, the defective cds i received > did not play in 5 different cd players, or 2 different cd rom drives). Just my 2cv... They're probably burning the CDs at 4-speed, disk-at-once, and although disk-at-once is supposed to be red-book audio standard, they invariably f--k up. And if disk-at-once wasn't bad enough, 4-speed writing is even worse. If they burned the CDs at 2-speed, they'd probably save about a month per CD. :-) For the record, the CDs I've burned at 2-speed, with a normal close-session (2-second gap at the end of each track - not disk-at-once) have played on everything I've tried them on - a handheld CD-player, 2 CD-ROM drives, a 13-year old CD-player, and I've even lent a few CDs out, and no-one has had any trouble playing 'em. So CDuctive's main concept isn't flawed - successfully-burned CD-R's are one of the most reliable things I've used - but their execution is poor. Jeremy.