I'm looking for an option that will enable me to create a high quality compilation disk for use as a reference CD for the Houston Audio Society to use when we compard components in our meetings. Most of the commercial CD copy software I see proudly advertises how crappy their software is at reproducing the full fidelity of a CD. They don't state it that way - they advertise how much their software can compress a file and how it can quickly rip a CD at 48X speed, which to me is the same thing.

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The last time I tried writing CD's from WMP, the only output I could get was Red Book. That being the case, if your input was WMA lossless, then your output should have been bit-for-bit identical to the original CD. Also, IIRC EAC would only make one-for-one, CD to CDR copies. I was trying to make some CDR's in 192k MP3 and neither WMP or EAC would do it. I believe I used Audio Grabber to make the MP3 CDR's.

OK. I stand corrected. I WMP 11, go to the extra options under the burn tab and make sure that "do not"convert" is checked. Your output should be Red Book.

Another thing that you might try is burning each track as a data file. The intermediate file will be WAV regardless of what the input is and the copy will be Red Book.

Bob

There are a thousand methods. The hardest one I've tried is using
cue sheets -- EAC creates them, but it's not easy to manipulate for
a compilation. The easiest I've found is a not free, but not expensive
program called CDRWin. If you've ripped your music to individual
wave files, you can select a list of .wavs and it will write them.
It's always written high quality CDRs for me. If you haven't gotten
something going yet, I can review my process and give a more precise
description.

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