Oh, just thought, when i said You too I meant have a happy new year too!!! LOL Paul

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I thought that most audio cds were actually arranged for analog playback, which is why you need a "ripping" program as opposed to simply copying the files (the "ripper" converts analog to digital data that can be stored on the computer). Speed should not affect the digital transcribing of files, since digital is just a collection of 1's and 0's; but analog - as a system of small graduations - is probably a more delicate operation that might show effects at high speeds. Just a guess...

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Audio CD's are not arranged for analog playback. The reason you need to rip CD's is that recording them through the soundcard will be an analog copy. This means it has to go through the soundcard and most soundcards are noisy, thus adding noise and distortion to the audio. Ripping creates a mirror image copy of the audio file from the CD. You cannot copy the file directly from Windows Explorer. If you look at an audio CD in Explorer, you will notice the file size is only 1k. This is because the filess you are seeing are not the audio file itself but a bookmark to the start of the audio file on the CD. The reason they say to burn audio CD's slower then data is somewhat oldschool thought. Most older burners would have problems burning data at faster rates. Most new CD burners don't have this problem anymore. Also audio CD's have no error correction. They can use all 700 megs of a standard CD. if you drop a bit or two on an audio CD, chances are you won't hear it, so you don't really need correction. Data CD's are different. You actually get 700 megs of data on a standard CD but with data, 50 megs are used for error correction. This is why it's ok to burn faster with data because of the error correction.

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