Patrick Barnes wrote:
I'm surprised that nobody on this thread has mentioned the two most valuable
tips when having problems with CD-burning quality:
* Burn at low speeds. 8x is usually good, 4x is failsafe.
I've heard from the experts that burning at a slower speed is not
neccessarily going to make the burn more likely to succeed. As a
matter of fact, some media may actually be worse at slower than rated
speed.
Having said that... I've had a bit of better success when burning at
slower than rated speeds.
* Get quality media. Nothing results in more coasters than poor-quality
media.
But I do agree with this 150% !
I've recently been burning a whole lot of DVDs and CDs.
I unfortunately decided to purchase 'low cost' blank media.
Boy what a mistake that was. At best, my success rate was
pathetic, at worst, it was laughable. :-(
So from now on, its nothing but medium to premium blanks.
... snip ...
Many tools, including K3B, support verification of the written data, but this
is only a secondary measure. It is much better to avoid problems in the
first place rather than have to detect them afterwards.
Having a successful burn guaranteed is always the best, but when
trying out a new batch of blanks, I now highly recommend do the
verification. At least that way, I know I haven't burned a coaster.
Now I've had some turn into a coaster the day after it was burned,
but at least it verified on the day of the burn. :-(
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