Creating Audio CDs on your PC

12 Step Recovery From Audio CD-R Problems on the PC gives an in-depth look at the stumbling blocks that prevent many people from making audio CDs.

For a very outdated look at the subject, here's a series of articles circa 1996 focused specifically on the application of creating Audio CD originals and copies with Adaptec's Easy CD-Pro 95:

Introduction to CD-R
Choose a CD-R drive
Computer capabilities: speed, IDE vs. SCSI
Dealing with SCSI
Getting started with Adaptec Easy-CD Pro 95
Working around audio CD limitations in ECDP95
Problems with ECDP95
Problems with the Yamaha CDR- 100
Recording audio from analog sources (vinyl, tape, etc.)

Dec 1996: Convergence, CD-R Problems, FREQ for cheap spectrum analysis
Jan 1997: CD-R Media and labeling, News from Yamaha, Sound card sampling, CD-ROM audio extraction
Feb 1997: Cool Edit
Mar 1997: Audio resources on the WWW

Looking for more information about CD-R? Try some of the following pages:

CD-R FAQ
CD Information Center
Adaptec CD-R
Resources for CD-R
CD Page

Revision History:
V1.0 07/25/96 Original release, single long document
V1.1 10/04/96 Split into sections, minor revisions
V1.2 01/24/99 Added 12 Step Recovery page

These articles are copyright 1999 Gregory Smith. Reproduction without authorization is prohibited, although requests are usually granted if you ask nicely. Everything here is strictly opinion, and not guaranteed in any way to be useful to you or particularly factual; I believe it all to be true, but that doesn't necessarily mean you should listen to me (lots of people who know me better don't, why should you?). Suggestions given here are definitely to be taken at your own risk. All the participants are trained professionals well aware of the risks involved with opening your computer and sticking your fingers in various places within it; don't try this at home, kids.