Re: ID Numbers when burning a CD-R

I second Tim's post. The native ID number imprinted by the manufacturer of the CD is not relevant to what CDJ does. Instead it take a sort of digital fingerprint that incorporates the number and length of tracks and matches that info against CDDB. The process is not 100 percent reliable but it's close. It works as well on copies as on originals, as long as the copies are exact. If you're getting routine data-corruption problems with your CD burner, Tim's solution of slowing things down may work. I have found that CD burners need a considerably more powerful machine than the minimum specs cited by the manufacturer, especially if the CD burner itself has a small buffer.

For anyone buying new, don't accept anything less than a 2-meg buffer on the CD burner, and try to run it on at least a P-II 300 with 64 megs of RAM and a pretty fast hard drive. Even with recordable CDs selling for less than $1 a pop, wasting them is no fun. If you want a separate CD-ROM drive so you can do one-click copying, the Kenwood TrueX drives are amazing.