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Needed to boot windows to copy audio CD



See this is why you need to learn dd and cdrecord cli tools.

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 14:35 -0400, Laura Conrad wrote:
> A friend sent a CD that was a recording of the music at a party where a
> number of people played.  I was planning on making several copies to
> give to the performers.  As far as any of the machines I play CD's on
> have told me, it seems like a perfectly normal audio CD.
> 
> I wasn't able -- using sound-juicer, brasero, or serpentine -- to fit
> the contents of the original CD onto my blank CD's.
> 
> When I booted windows on the Lenovo laptop and stuck in the CD I wanted
> to copy, it came up with a menu of choices including "make a copy", and
> when I picked that one, it seemed to have  no trouble making copies for
> as long as I felt like feeding blank disks into the machine.
> 
> So what are the Linux apps doing or failing to do that the Windows ones
> aren't?  And can I make them stop or start doing it?
> 







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