From Helix Tradesman Sent Fri, Aug 13th 1999, 21:15
From Helix Tradesman Sent Fri, Aug 13th 1999, 21:15
>I remember hearing something a while back about (perhaps) a certain > >software being able to burn more than 74 minutes onto a CD. I'm > >currently using Sony HotBurn but have CDRWin and Easy CD Creator > >available. Any pointers? Overburning is by no means an easy thing, and right off the bat I'll tell you that odds are you physically cannot do it. That being said, here's how you do it: 1) Buy a good cd-r. This is why most people can't overburn. You bought the HP which is about 3/4 to 1/2 the price of a Yamaha or Plextor, and you saved the cash, now you know why. You CANNOT burn with lower quality drives. This may have changed with some newer drives, but in my experience only the really great drives can do it. 2) Get yourself good media. Don't expect more than a 10 second increase if you buy bad media (IMO Memorex, etc). My choices: Verbatim (Not too much overburn time), Sony (pretty good time), Fujitsu (great cds, tres expensive), and TDK which I havn't actually tried, but have heard from numerous people that they are good. 3) Get a good program. Don't use Ez-CD Creator, it won't let you overburn. Don't us CDRWin unless you are very adept at writing good .CUE files (in which case why are you reading this? :). My choice is Nero burning rom which although I find is a bit hard to understand at first, it has options up the ying yang. 4) Burn, and expect a few coasters, and truncated final tracks. This one is pretty self explanatory. Since you aren't supposed to overburn, there are no cut and dry rules as to how much each cd will hold. That depends mainly on the media you use. There is a site which has a database of overburn times for almost every blank cd imaginable, and is quite a good knowledge base for this kind of thing. I don't have the url right now unfortunately. Anyhow, I hope this clears up anything, and also quells this off-topic thread before it gains momentum and hijacks the list like so manny errant threads do. Paelon "It's easy to critasize, but you'd be paranoid too if everyone hated you." - D. J. Hicks ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com