On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 08:22:44 -0500 (CDT) "Brian" <lxy at cloudnet.com> wrote: Somehow in this process he's getting pops in > the audio. This makes no sense since it's all digital. Every CD I've > tried burning in this thing does it. This is a Windows question, but the answer is cross-platform, so I'll give it. The short answer is that Adaptec EZ-CD Creator (aka Sleazy CD Creature) is a piece of junk. The long answer involves the way in which digital audio is stored on a CD-ROM. Yes it is 'all digital' but CDDA data, unlike regular data, has no reference or checksumming infomation. It is stored in a raw streaming format, so that when the drive reads a block of data from the CD, the drive cannot know with assurance that it read exactly what was supposed to be there. If a drive has a large amount of jitter or errors, the result can be pops and ticks on the copy. Hey, what am I saying? You should really be listening to vinyl LPs anyway ;) For full infomation on the problem / solution, go to this URL: http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ and read the FAQs and documentation. For *nix users, CDDA Paranoia pretty much solves this issue. In the meantime, tell dad to pitch EZ-CD Creator, and download Nero Burning ROM; a _real_ CD burning software, that should fix this issue: http://www.ahead.de You can demo it for free, which is worth your time. Be sure to uninstall EZ-CD creator FIRST, and reboot the machine before installing Nero. (Oh by the way, did you try burining onto a different brand of media, or burning at a slower speed? :) -.bill.layer.- -.those who are talking don't know, and those who know aren't talking.- -.frogtown.- -.minnesota.- -.u.s.a.-