"Dirty" Copies

[eldonideus]

I am trying to assemble a custom disk but the quality of the copy is less than desireable. It comes out with a lot of trash through out the song that accumulates by the end. Some songs are worse than others but none are what I would call professional.
I tried to sort through the forums and troubleshoot everything myself but I am stuck.
I am using XP Pro. I have a Plextor PX-708A. I wanted to make sure I had a 'good' burrner do I ordered it through MTU and am using the MTU silver media. I have an NVIDIA GeForce4 integrated video card and a souundblaster live value sound card. I have downloaded the latest drivers/firmware for my soundcard, video card, motherboard, and DVD burner. I have tried both the MTU ASPI and default ASPI. My ASPI version is 7.71.2. I have tried disabling the screen saver and my anti-virus software and software firewall just in case.
Any ideas?

Thanks,

Eldon

[George]

Which version of DirectX are you running? Microstudio requires DirectX 9.0b .

If you're not sure how to tell, Click RUN, then type in DXDIAG, and click OK.

Near the bottom of the first page that pops up, it will tell you which version you're running.

If you need to upgrade DIRECTX go to the Microsoft website, look in downloads, and get the one for your operating system.It's free.

Hope this gets it for you,

George

http://www.microsoft.com

[Lauraine Graham- with the Lord]

Forgive me for mentioning something that you may have already thought of, but you do not mention the quality of your source material. If the discs from which you are compiling are damaged or dirty (or copied from a corrupted source) the file you generate will be corrupted. Clean copies cannot be got from a dirty source.

Also, the laser in your drive(s) must be cleaned on a regular basis. This is a process which can be forgotten when one is busy.

If the above can be elliminated as a reason for your problem I apologise for bringing it up.

[Garry A. Leslie]

Helen Lauraine,
Just a thought.
I have had some awfully dirty discs that I have tried to record from, notably a well used "Blues Brothers", badly scratched and in the worse possible condition.
I cleaned this up with "Disc Doctor" from Dixons and managed to get a clean usable copy onto the hard disc, once there it is permanently usable.
If you say your discs are "dirty" anything that will help without re-buying the discs is acceptable.
Regards from this side of the pond.
Garry

[Garry A. Leslie]

Hello Lauraine,
Sorry if I sounded as if I was advising you when it was Eldon who set the question.
I was just thinking about an "illegal" I did recently from a friend who had a copy of a tune I couldn't find anywhere else. despite thoroughly searching the net.
It is only for my own personal use, I am transcribing it, but it was "dirty" in more than one sense.
He says he bought it legit, but I have seen a lot of copies which are quite well presented but poorly done. Pirates always seem to use inferior discs.
Regards from this side of the pond.
Garry

[MTUSUPPORT]

Eldon,
The disc that you are saying is "Dirty", is this when you play it in a Karaoke Player or just in Microstudio, or are both of them playing it back dirty?


Please let me know.

[eldonideus]

I saw a post that talks about Roxio EZ CD Creator 6 causing some problems. I believe this came with my DVD burner (and is now installed). I don't have any auto-options turned on when I insert a blank disk and I don't have any of this software running (system tray, etc.). Would this have an effect and if so what DVD burner software should I have to allow me to use the burner outside of Microstudio?
Thanks,

[George]

Roxio had a program in their Easy CD Creator 5 called TAKE TWO that was problematic. I'd heard that they removed it from Easy cd creator 6.

Anyone running version 5 can go to their website and download the upgrade to version 6 at no cost.

I've been running both versions 5 and 6 without any problems, but I think that's the luck of the draw with any of them.

George

[Flipeoke]

IMHO, I would assume, since the CDs (both original and copies) play fine in Microstudio, and the copies play bad in the CDG player, perhaps the CDG player is at fault. Have you tried cleaning the laser lens on the player, or perhaps your player doesn't like CD-R media. I have heard, that the newer burners actually burn BETTER at faster speeds, so try burning at max speed (or auto) see if it makes a difference. There are so many variables...

Hope something I said here helps...

Flip

[mindonstrike]

I posted a similiar problem under "cd recorders" a couple months back. I had this problem with my store bought plextor. Hoping that was the problem I purchased the MTU cert plextor, I got a slight improvement on some songs but for the most part no change. Most of the problems occured on Chartbusters, because they don't refresh their their screens the crap just builds up till the lyrics can no longer be read. Soundchoice I get crap occasionally but it goes away after each new screen is painted.
I was trying to import these into Hoster with originals and then tried to make a copy in Microstudio to import to Hoster. No Luck. I tried converting the songs to mp3+g and then back to disk, still no luck.

The only resolution I found was to stop buying Chartbuster, and when singers bring their own Chartbuster (or dirty, scuffed etc) I use my player instead of the computer.
Sorry this isn't the answer you were looking for. Good luck.
Sam

[eldonideus]

I had posted a similar problem a few months ago with a store bought plextor CDR. The response I got was that my burner was at fault and that I could not see the 'professional' copies unless I had a 'certified' burner and the MTU media. That is the whole reason I purchased my new DVD burner through MTU. I found the exact same burner at least $50 cheaper elsewhere but I wanted to guarantee the copies would be clean. I got the Silver Media for the same reason. Without the ability to copy my CDG's to make compilation disks, the software has limited use for me. I have had it awhile but haven't been able to really use it since I kept getting bad copies. I was hoping I would finally see the quality copies I have been looking for but there hasn't been too much improvement over the old non-certified CD burner.
Just to recap, I have tried reading/burning at 1x and auto. The DVD burner is brand new and certified (about a week old) so shouldn't need cleaning.
I don't mind tracking down the different combinations once I know what to try, the problem is that I just don't know what else to try.