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Originally Posted by ddouglass
When you are importing whether temporary or permanent to a computer it is much more critical for the data to be correct. I am not sure I would say that Karaoke player drives are any more tolerant in that it really depends on where and how badly scratched and cracked the CD is. If there is a bad enough scratch or crack then the display will have so much trash on it to be unreadable. And that applies to both computer drives and player drives.
In fact I don't believe ther are any differences because they are the same drives. JVC used to make a 3 tray player with their own drives. Those same drives were used in computers. The only difference is that the ones in the player do not have the full cover case on them that the computer version has.
Hoster does employ the best available 4 pass error correction that can read through most scratches and minor cracks. When they first added this I helped beta test it, by taking a perfectly good (copy) of a CDG and put 7 or 8 radial scratches (worst case) across the disk. Every file on the disk imported near perfect. It takes longer toimport when Hoster has to use all 4 passes to read a sector but it did import ok. Microstudio also has this error correction.
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The only thing I can add to that Dale is what someone told me on here about three years ago when I was first importing all my disks to kma files.
" A karaoke player spins much slower than a computer disk player." At that time I was seeing speckles on the last several tracks of most of my new Chartbuster disks, after importing. It was explained that the last tracks were located towards the end of the disk and even see a greater linear speed there than they would towards the inside of the disk where the first tracks are located. These same disks would read fine with no speckles on every track on a karaoke player, however. Again, that was in the days of maybe version 2.xx or something like that before the days of super - error correction. None of this may apply now.