Is there a more accurate CD burning software?

[Chris Desjardin]

I use Exact Audio Copy to copy CD's to my hard drive. Then I use EZ CD Creator to burn the disc. I have heard that EAC is one of the best ripping softwares, but what about for the burning part of it? Are there any softwares that are more accurate than others? What do people out there use?

[Grant]

CD Creator makes red-book CDs. The software does it's job, and does it well. It's about the only thing CD Creator really does right, IMO.

Why the obsession over software? If something produces a few more errors than another when burning a CD you can't hear it anyway. It's all fixed with error-correction in the player.

[Claviusb]

You can go in to EACs Drive properties and check the amount of samples your drive is off for both the read and write functions (all drives are off + or - both reading and writing I learned) of your particular drive(s) and then EAC allows you to apply offset correction for that amount. Of course this is incredibly anal, but I still like the fact that I am offered the ability to be that nutty about it.

You can burn discs directly from EAC, Chris. Press Alt+W (or go to Tools>Write CD-R from the main menu along the top of EAC), the CD Layout Editor opens. Click on "File," then click on "Load Cue Sheet..."navigating to the place on your hard drive where you store the cue sheet file you wish to use (this is assuming you made a cue sheet as you copied your .wav to your hard drive by pressing Alt+F7), then click on "CD-R," and then "Write CD" to burn the disc using the cue sheet for writing gaps.

Something that I think is easily overlooked and is more important to the actual burning than a choice of software is to make sure you have the latest firmware for your burner. And that's free!

[Craig]

Expanding on what Claviusb said about EAC. You can write with it if your burner is supported (not all are). If you are just making a copy of a disc and have two drives (one to extract and one to write) you can choose TOOLS>COPY CD (ALT-Y) and the data is extracted to your HD and then written out to the new disc. I use both EAC and CDRWIN to burn discs.
-Craig