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CDROM Not Reading Audio CD's
Name: blind from viagra Date: February 6, 2006 at 15:04:43 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: 256/1100
Comment:
Hi! I am trying to copy some CD's that I burned on this computer back onto it. The problem is that an entire album, is showing up as 44bytes. The cd will play but I can not get it back on my hard drive. Have tried several CD's. All songs or albums show up as 44bytes.
Any ideas. ( I want them back on there because I just bought a surround sound for my computer.)
Name: Arctos Date: February 6, 2006 at 15:09:10 Pacific
Reply:
You are going to have to rip the cd's again. Go here and get the free Audiograbber.
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Response Number 2
Name: Kurt S Date: February 6, 2006 at 15:10:10 Pacific
Reply:
If it's an audio CD, you can't just drag and drop the files back on the hard drive. The tracks you are seeing on the CD are just bookmarks to the starting point of the song on the CD, not the actual file.
You needa ripping program such as CDex to extract the song and put it back on your drive. www.cdex.com
One issue you might run into is: if these were originaly mp3s or wma's and you burned them to a CD and now you want them back on your hard drive. You are going to have to encode them again and this is going to lead to audio degredation. They won't sound as good this time.
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