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lzvk25 wrote:Unfortunately when the companies buy from Dell, HP or any other company they do not pay attention about what kind of cd-burner they got inside their machines. In most cases to cut costs, specially HP and Compaq, they put those taiwan made things and you can imagine our despair. I remember cases where they put Phillips CD-RW's and those were really crappy.
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That's why our company has full technical support and when they bought/will upgrade the computers we can "customize them" ... But Hp and others for some time have their own cd-rw ...

And please don't tell me about Phillips, Asus & others ... We all know them ...
JohnFredC wrote: Perhaps a plugin created by someone who has access to a plethora of CD writers to test with.
Why "a plethora"??? Like I said it before it even doesn't worth it! There are a very FEW units that deserve your attention to buy them & to use them ... If not you should prey before any writing session for the worse wouldn't happen to you ...

And CoMike, I think you wanted to say www.goldenhawk.com :)
And they are more even simpler(but the code is not handled like they care about the size even you would come across smaller apps that do their job well for the REAL units) just take a look at www.download.com at the section CNET > Downloads > Windows > Audio & Video > CD & DVD Burners if you want.
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Hi Sam
There are a very FEW units that deserve your attention
Do you have a recommendation for one of the "FEW" that does work? I'm about to take a hammer to my HP 8200.
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JohnFredC wrote:Hi Sam
There are a very FEW units that deserve your attention
Do you have a recommendation for one of the "FEW" that does work? I'm about to take a hammer to my HP 8200.
Hi JohnFredC!

I don't know if your agreement that you have with HP permits you buying other brand than their own, but if you do ...

Like I said in the previous posts you should try the king Plextor and Teac ... there are however even with Teac(!!!) some problems with the last sectors of data on some not reliable brands ... so I wouldn't advise "overburn" with Teac unless you have high quality cd brands like Memorex, Verbatim(not all of them however) and so on ...

If you have the money you should go for Plextor ...

However we didn't have serious problems with brand cd-rw(Ibm, Compaq, Toshiba) not even with HP

But like lzvk25 said if you bought them from other places(resellers, net) you should have "surprises" on what's "inside the box"
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And CoMike, I think you wanted to say www.goldenhawk.com
Yeah, gold hawk??? I needed to sleep and take care with my nightmares... Golden Hawk sounds better ;)
Do you have a recommendation for one of the "FEW" that does work? I'm about to take a hammer to my HP 8200.
I know the question wasn't directed to me, but take a look at LG writers... Don't ask me why, but I'm in love with LG. ;)
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BTW: Burn4Free might work aswell - http://www.burn4free.com/ .
Plextor really does rule.
Hands away from Samsung - it has the habit of breaking CDs.

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Plextor drives are indeed very good. The best burning program is prolly Nero despite it's bloat, on ripping there is no consensus: for music EAC is regarded as the best, for cloning CloneCD, as a general purpose ripper Plex tools is very good (if you have a Plextor drive).

Adding this feature to TC is IMO a waist of time, there are many specialized software out there and TC won't be able to compete, nor will it help me when I need to burn since I'll always opt to use the best fitting software for the task.

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PlexTools is probably the best digital audio extractor for Plextor drives since it has the read and write offsets pre-set correctly as opposed to EAC where you can't set them separately AFAIK.

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Hacker wrote:PlexTools is probably the best digital audio extractor for Plextor drives since it has the read and write offsets pre-set correctly as opposed to EAC where you can't set them separately AFAIK.
Yes, you can set it in EAC (after checking in PlexTools, don't forget to devide by 4 iirc); as to how EAC compares to PlexTools on audio extraction... well I have no idea but I heard of times when it was better and others when worse, generally EAC fares better.

Also EAC is prolly better because it's more flexible in letting you compress the files with whatever codec you want (plus whatever options you set), rather then prebuilt codecs PlexTools supports.

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Without question EAC & Plextor CD kit & maybe Cdex are very good at ripping audio cds! EAC has a lot of functions that in "proper hands" can do wonders on such matters as quality. Also, there has been a lot of talk on specialized forum groups on reliability of the current lame encoder and a lot more on the up-coming alpha one ... They both seem to have A LOT of problems & strange bugs(like displaying one bitrate and ripping another and so on) ...

But I think we're getting a little off-topic here ...
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you can set it in EAC
Are you really sure? I can't check it right now but IIRC you couldn't set read and write offsets separately.

Also EAC is prolly better because it's more flexible in letting you compress the files with whatever codec you want (plus whatever options you set), rather then prebuilt codecs PlexTools supports.
The prebuilt codecs are pretty much enough for me since I always rip to wav anyways (as I want full control over the encoding process, repeating it wth other parameters as necessary) and once as I wanted to rip them to LAME (IIRC) using EAC I somehow didn't manage to set the the right options for the command line... anyways, it's just my personal experience and I prefer and recommend PlexTools for people with Plextor drives.

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To the original poster,

If you have Windows XP and still want a file manager that will burn to CD, then check out Directory Opus at http://www.dopus.com.

DO integrates with the CD burning functionality of Windows XP so you can burn files to CD from right inside DO.
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Innuendo wrote:To the original poster,

If you have Windows XP and still want a file manager that will burn to CD, then check out Directory Opus at http://www.dopus.com.

DO integrates with the CD burning functionality of Windows XP so you can burn files to CD from right inside DO.
Yes, I also know that if we combine TC + WinFrigate + Dopus we'll obtain the greatest file manager known to man ... Maybe a little too from AccelMan ...

Take a look here and you'll see some requests in this forum coming true in Dopus: file detailed copy, more info about files(multimedia,etc) ... WinFrigate supports now Excel edit and so on ...

http://www.gpsoft.com.au/preview.html

But, do you think that using at once 4 different file managers would be practical?
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Sam York wrote:...we'll obtain the greatest file manager known to man...
Well, that thing already exists! ;)
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pdavit wrote:
Sam York wrote:...we'll obtain the greatest file manager known to man...
Well, that thing already exists! ;)

Don't tell me that they already released TotalFrigateOpusMan !!! :lol:
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writing CD's is more then writing to a floppy! So I must also say, that creating CD's is the job for a plugin, not for TC itself; reasons for this are enough in this thread.
It's suffisant if the plugin is only a bridge between TC and the burning tool (like nero). This could be done as a packerplugin for the controlfile of the nurning-app (or for images, but here you need much more space on you HD) or as a filesystemplugin.
I've already made this suggestion in the plugin-board: http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=1400
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