[tycheung]

I want to duplicate some of my cds, so I can leave my precious originals home safe, and lug the dups with me without fear of damaging them. On my parent's HP tower with a cd burner and a cd rom, I can use easy cd creator (AFAIK, toast for the PC) to directly duplicate one disk to the other. Not sure how to do this on my iBook cd burner- disk copy seems to make an AIFF data cd copy. Is there any loss of quality if I rip it to AIFF, then burn the AIFFS back to a music CD? Should I buy Toast Titanium? Any help would be appreciated.

Tyler

[Mark E]

easiest way to do this is with itunes.

set the preferences to import as AIFF files, and burn as an audio CD with 0 second gaps between tracks.

then load your audio CD, click "import", wait for it to import, and drag the new tracks into a new playlist and click "burn".

there's no loss of quality per se, but if the original CDs are scratched you might end up with skips in the resulting copied disc.

-Mark

[tritonus]

Toast Titanium is even easier. There's a duplicate/copy function (like in your HP tower).

Mark E's advice is correct. It's the free solution, but not as comfortable.