can't control write speed of drive: CD Architect 4.5

kiteblues wrote on 4/11/2003, 3:15 PM

I have a Pacific Digital Internal IDE CDRW 48x12x48 in a HP511WB, Celeron, 384MB RAM, WINXP.

It works pretty well with the NERO software that came with it. But I prefer to use Sonic Foundry CD Architect 4.5 for creating compilation audio CDs.

I was able to make CDArchitect detect the CDRW, but I can't control the burn speed. It defaults to "max" and won't give me any other options. It does not reliably produce CD's that can be read on all CDplayers.

I suspect it is writing too fast, but I can't slow it down.

Comments

Geoff_Wood wrote on 4/11/2003, 8:23 PM

If you selected the drive via 'ATAPI MMC-Compatible drive' any lack of speed settings is probably due to incomplete MMC compatibilty of the drive. Like in the adjacent thread....

geoff

John_Logan wrote on 4/16/2003, 8:04 PM

Look through the earlier topics and track down colin hills workaround. This will let you burn your project with another application. This will avoid the problems that trying to use cd4 has when useing modern writers.

dcomo wrote on 4/23/2003, 6:20 PM

The suggested fix to this is to upgrade to the latest version of CDA, which
is version 5. Version 5 supports so many more burners as well as offers
much more functionality.

In response to John's post, the website to download Colin Hill's program
is http://www.projecteva.net.

Enjoy :-)