Questions tagged [compact-disc]
Compact Disc or CD is a type of optical physical media that can hold digital data (data, music, video). Standard CDs can hold up to 700MB of data, or 80 minutes of audio if converted to an audio-CD.
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CD metadata not retrievable with WMP
As of a few days ago Windows Media Player no longer retrieves CD metadata when ripping CDs. This is due to the disconnection of the server that used to store that data. There appears to be no timeline ...
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.cda music files on commercial audio CD are not recognized with their media information
I recently purchased a Commercial Audio CD. When I load the CD through an external CD drive in Windows 11, it reads properly, but doesn't detect the music info from that commercial CD.
Also, it doesn'...
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How to create a bootable CD that automatically starts a DOS application
I have a bootable ISO file that I want to burn to a CD. I'd like it to start an application on the disc when it boots.
I extracted the img file from the ISO using 7-Zip. If I burn a CD in CDBurnerXP ...
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How to convert an MP3 CD into a regular (Red Book) audio CD?
I have a CD-ROM on which three MP3 files are stored.
When I put it into the player of my car, the music starts playing.
When I put it into an old CD-player (bought somewhere between 1990 and 2000, I ...
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Why is it when I load an old CD-R, I can see files in file explorer, but all files are unreadable and CD-R is reported as empty?
As per title, I have an old CD-R (from the late 2000s) that I want recover some data from. The CD-R is in good conditions and doesn't show any signs of diskrot, but it was stored in a relatively humid ...
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Does full erase create all 0s or all 1s on the CD-RW?
Disclaimer: there was this question, it was deleted before I managed to post an answer. Since I put effort in creating my answer and I don't want it to go down the drain, I re-post the question here.
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How to verify data copied from CD/DVD to HDD?
How can I verify that data files copied from an optical data disc (such as a CD or DVD) to a hard disk are identical?
This can easily be done for data files copied from one HDD to another using ...
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Pen Drive recognized as Cd-ROM
As I mentioned above, my pendrive is recognized as cd-rom on my Win11 OS. And since it is recognized as CD-ROM, I can't format it, can't list in diskpart, or disk management tool. Even Minitool ...
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Suspiciously fast XCOPY on 2nd CD
I'm checking the integrity of my 'Old projects' CDs/DVDs with XCOPY *.* /s to my hard disk.
I have two copies of each CD/DVD, so the first copy goes to Folder1, the second to Folder2, and then I ...
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How do I clone a game CD- or DVD-rom that gives IO-errors whenever I try to clone it, but I can access the files just fine?
EDIT: I managed to do it with Gnome Disk Utils, as it just replaces unreadable bytes with 0s
I am trying to make a backup of all my old CD- and DVD-rom games so that I can access them from anywhere ...
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Does the ambient temperature at the time of reading effect the readibility of cds?
While going through a lot of old data CDs (all round about 20 yrs old) I noticed, that the ambient temperature of the CD and the CD-Drive seems to affect the readibility of the CD if both of them are ...
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Windows 10 Desktop PC cannot play Audio CD
Recently, my Windows 10 Desktop PC can no longer play Audio CDs. The disc seems to be recognized as Audio CD and I can even browse the disc and see the tracks:
But I cannot play the CD using any ...
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Why can’t I play a German Aladdin Broadway CD with an external CD drive connected to my 2020 MacBook Air?
I really liked the original soundtrack of the Aladdin Broadway musical, so I wanted to listen to all of the songs in German. I bought this (used) CD from an American company and the CD arrived today. ...
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What is stored in the first two seconds of a CD-ROM?
When I run cd-info on Linux I always get these tracks:
CD-ROM Track List (1 - 1)
#: MSF LSN Type Green? Copy?
1: 00:02:00 000000 data false no
170: 68:17:27 307152 leadout (688 ...
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Unable to access a data track or sector on a Music CD?
I have a November 2006 music CD Single that has 3 audio tracks and it contains a artist specific software that allows the fans to do various things. This is an advertised selling point of this version ...
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