Sony_Fan Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 (edited) I have two disc drives, a DVD-Rom and a DVD/CD writer. Which one should I use to import music into SonicStage. I noticed that the DVD/CD writer imports music a little slower than the DVD-Rom drive. Is there a reason for this? Would importing from the DVD/CD writer yield better sound quality. I'm just assuming that importing slower, is better.P.S. Instead of just reading this post and not replying, could you atleast tell me what kind of drive you use to import CD music. Edited December 31, 2006 by Chris G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 I use EAC. In general, DVD/CD writer usually rips better/faster than DVD/CD-ROM drives, plus DVD/CD writers tend to recognize and rip Copy protected CDs better than regular DVD/CD-ROM drives. I know my DVD-ROM drive rips much slower than my various DVD/CD writers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sony_Fan Posted January 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2007 I use EAC. In general, DVD/CD writer usually rips better/faster than DVD/CD-ROM drives, plus DVD/CD writers tend to recognize and rip Copy protected CDs better than regular DVD/CD-ROM drives. I know my DVD-ROM drive rips much slower than my various DVD/CD writers.In my case it's the opposite, my DVD/CD writer imports music a little slower. I'm just wondering why? I even checked the "CD Smoothing" option and imported on both drives, and the DVD/CD writer still imported slower. What does the "CD Smoothing" option actually do??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 What does the "CD Smoothing" option actually do???From Help:If noise occurs frequently during importing from CD you can select this option...This may reduce or eliminate the noise, but the reading process may take longer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 (edited) In my case it's the opposite, my DVD/CD writer imports music a little slower. I'm just wondering why? I even checked the "CD Smoothing" option and imported on both drives, and the DVD/CD writer still imported slower. What does the "CD Smoothing" option actually do???Dunno. I know Lite-on drives tend to rip pretty quickly, even their DVD-ROM drives, compared to other brands like Pioneer/NEC DVD-writer drives. It's just probably the design (most manufactures probably don't focus too much on the ripping speed of their optical drives). Well, just use whichever drive that's faster. In the past (during 8X CD-RW drives era), CD-RW drives tend to rip better than plain CD/DVD-ROM drives. However, most optical drives today can rip AudioCD just fine. The only problem comes in when you have a copy protected CD. I wouldn't worry about the CD smoothing option. If your optical drive can rip the AudioCD properly, there is no need for that. You can try installing EAC, and see which drives has the better features (eg. C2 error retrival capability), or try ripping using EAC, and see which drives rip with less error (probably using a scratched audioCD). Edited January 2, 2007 by pata2001 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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