Nero 5.5 (latest ver) and EZCD 5 under Win2000

#1 chasputnam

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Posted 05 June 2001 - 06:07 AM

The first release of Nero 5.5 caused problems w/ EZCD 5. Has anyone tried the update yet and can you advise if the prior problems are corrected.

Given the problems that EZCD 5 causes w/ Win2000, I'm thinking of going back to EZCD 4 for audio and data and using Nero 5.5 for photo albums (and believe it or not, WMP 7.1 for ripping MP3's - did a test between that and EZCD 5's SoundStream - same rip speed).

Last question, will Nero 5.5 and EZCD 4 co-exist together under Win2000?

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#2 ValkyerieK7

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Posted 05 June 2001 - 07:45 AM

You can only hope so

#3 Cardinal

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Posted 05 June 2001 - 10:02 AM

Don't worry about the speed of ripping a track. Look at the quality.

Wmp 7+ is dreadful for this.

#4 chasputnam

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Posted 05 June 2001 - 03:38 PM

Thanks for the reply. Actually, I hadn't noticed any sound quality problems with rips from WMP 7.1. When I tested, both WMP 7.1 and SoundStream were set to rip files to 160Kbps (setting under the Tools/Options/CD Music)

EZCD 5 has a lot of nice features, but wasn't fully tested under Win2000. There are (known) problems creating data CD's under Win2000 that don't occur under Win98/Me.

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Posted 05 June 2001 - 03:57 PM

For the longest time it's been said that you're not supposed to use those two programs on the same system.

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Posted 05 June 2001 - 10:34 PM

Hi, Nero 5.5.2.3 still has the same problems with hibernation that the first 5.5 had, you'd thought that Ahead would have sussed it with the second release by now....
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Posted 13 June 2001 - 04:55 AM

Nero 5.5.2.4 is out on Ahead ftp site.

Microsoft Windows Media Player uses Roxio plug-in from ECDC 5.
No wonder the speed is the same.

Quality is abysmal -relatively- to other compression techniques.
Whether it makes a difference in real life is something else.

Anyhow MP3 playback on PC should involve DFX 5 to restore dynamics

#8 ThC 129

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Posted 13 June 2001 - 07:56 PM

i used to be an EZ cd creator fan but now i use nero all the way. Funny thing is that CDrwin and EZCd both run at high priority by default but nero runs in normal, and know what ive never burned a coaster with nero at all. Plus unlike EZCD which ALWAYS copies the tracks to the HD then burns it, nero won't. EZ CD Creator 5 has one nice feature i like and that is the mp3 cd feature other than that ez cd is a POS.

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Posted 14 June 2001 - 02:45 AM

EZ CD 5 and Nero 5.0 or 5.5 works fine together. The only thing you should NOT DO IS:
Install Ahead InCD.
Packet CD and Direct CD does not, can not and will not work together aunder any circumstance.

But Nero an EZCD is fine as far as I am concerned atough i do have it installed i dunno why anybody would wanna use ezcd while nero is out there.

Last Night it crashed with an out of memory message on a 512Mb 75GB x2 system with about 90GB free drive spaces

So I would like to congratulate it's engine programmers on creating the most massive code. However be careful with nero since loads of small files and over 10x writing is a lethal combination due to it's cache handling no matter how fast or good your hard drive's are.