OT: Any software to read a non-finalized CD?

smhontz wrote on 8/10/2005, 8:07 AM
We record our church services on a CD-Recorder. This week, the sound guy forgot to finalize the CD before giving it to me. I can visibly see that stuff is burned on the disk, but Windows nor Vegas see anything on it. A friend's Mac can't see anything, either.

Is there any software that will let you extract the audio from a non-finalized CD?

Comments

Grazie wrote on 8/10/2005, 8:13 AM
Will it play in a CD Player? - Guess you've tried this huh? - G :(
jetdv wrote on 8/10/2005, 8:36 AM
Why not just finalize it? Even if you have to take it back to church, you should be able to put it back in and do the finalization.
B_JM wrote on 8/10/2005, 8:39 AM
cdroller can do it http://www.cdroller.com/index.html

im sure there many other products .. dvdinfopro can do it on dvd's , not sure on cd's

John_Cline wrote on 8/10/2005, 8:39 AM
Can't you just pop the disc back in the CD recorder and finalize it? Otherwise, perhaps Nero or Jeff Arnold's free CDTOOLS can finalize it for you.

http://www.goldenhawk.com/freeware.htm

John
B_JM wrote on 8/10/2005, 8:40 AM
good point jetdv has .. you should be able to finalize it yourself with nero for example
smhontz wrote on 8/10/2005, 8:51 AM
Our church is renting a school and the earliest we can get in there is Sat nite, so I wanted to see if there was an easy computer-way to get the audio in the meantime (hey, it's just data, right?)

We did have a Pioneer CD-Recorder handy (I think the church one is a Yamaha) and when we put the disc in it, it plays, but we can't finalize it. (Must finalization be done on the exact recorder it was recorded on?) So, yes, I could play it and just hook the audio outputs of the recorder to my computer, but, again, I figure that this should be a piece of cake for a computer to do.
B_JM wrote on 8/10/2005, 6:55 PM
no - it does not need to be the same recorder (normally)