MicroStudio 2.613
 

Hi

I have just installed your new software Microstudio 2.613 2006.

On copying from CD-G disc’s when using Duplicating disc’s my new Plextor PX-712SA runs very slow.

If I copy using windows and not your software, it run’s ok.

When using your old software it was fine.

If I use the import track’s on the software, and then copy the disc it run’s faster but not at full speed?

I run windows XP / with 40 GB HDD / 1GB memory / AMD 3100+ CPU.

Can you help?

Chris

Hi Chris. Thanks for using our Forums. I moved your Thread to the Microstudio Help Forum as it belongs here. Singers and Hosts Wisdom is a general discussion Forum that is not product specific.

The usual cause of slow drives is your Windows Autorun is enabled for this drive.

Another reason to disable Autorun is that add on Sound Cards have software with proprietary players that pop up and attempt to play any audio CD, which includes Karaoke CDG discs.

Autorun causes extra delays for the drive to spin-up, to load unwanted software and to display advertisements embedded on some CDG discs.

Follow these steps to disable Autorun on a CD/DVD drive (this is from the Hoster Manual Troubleshooting Guide Section “Reducing Audio Drops While Playing"):

1. Click the Start button
   
   
2. Click the Run command
   
   
3. Type in regedit and press the Enter key
   
   
4. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and click the + at its left to open its contents up
   
   
5. Scroll down to System and click the + to its left
   
   
6. Locate CurrentControlSet and click the + to its left
   
   
7. Locate Services and click the + to its left
   
   
8. Locate Cdrom and click it directly to see its contents on the right screen. If you have more than one CD/DVD/ROM drive, I suggest you disable Autorun for each drive.
   
   
9. Locate Autorun and move your mouse to it, then click and release your RIGHT mouse button. In the menu that appears, move your mouse to Modify and click your mouse LEFT button to see an edit dialog box. Enter zero (0 must replace the default 1) and click the OK button. This disbles Autorun for this drive.
   
   
10. Click the X icon at the top right of this RegEdit screen to close it.

Your drive should now run faster. If not, post back here again, or post to tell us this solved your problem. :)

Try updating the Firmware on that Plextor drive from http://www.plextor.com/english/suppo...s/firm_712.htm

No did not work?

up dated firmware, still the same.

chris.

Make sure the cd drive is set up for DMA mode and not PIO... This will slow it down a lot.

Hi
used on CDRwin 5 software, and all is ok, copy's at 48X speed?? apprxo, 18 tracks in 4 min's

must be this software?

How come's, When using the old software it was fine.Very fast?

Help.

chris

It could have something to do with the error correction in the software. I have used cdr win to copy cdg's with before, and like chartbuster in particular it copys all the mistakes. Microstudio does have some error correction in it to try to even read sections unreadable by other means.

I believe it does correct the read and write speed to do this.

Have you changed anything on the system other than just the Version of Microstudio?

There were no changes in this version that should have caused a slow down. The only real change to the drivers was supporting the new Plextor 760 drives.

Have you tried updating to the latest drivers for your motherboards chipset drivers? You can do this from the motherboard manufacturers website.

If the old version works better on your machine, use it. problem solved

That is true, go back to the older version and see if it will work. I have a feeling it will do the same thing now, though.