Newbie to burning has a question for you experts

[waytoomuchcoffee]

Suppose the title could have been "A Burning Question". haha.

Yes, it's true, I never had a CD burner before. Anyway, one is on the way (a Plextor), for the sole purpose of recording streaming RealAudio. I found a program that intercepts the signal from RealAudio before it hits the sound board/sound board drivers (to avoid the DA conversion and subsequent sound degradation), and puts it into a .wav file.

Question is, is there a difference between different burning software? I want to maintain as high a quality as possible, and WON'T be going through mp3 to wav conversion. Is the software that comes with the Plextor good enough? Or is there better software? Remember, I will SOLELY be burning .wav files, nothing else. Is there any diff between burners for this, or is the sound quality solely dependent upon the software I have that creates the wav files?

 

[serialb]

Plextor makes good drives, so you should have no problem with the hardware part. However, burning program you use is equally important. My friend used to burn with the Plextor software but eventually ditched it for Nero due to stability reasons. (Program crashes for no reason) Nero seems to be the all-round winner in terms of performance, stability and ease of use.

Anyway, I don't think the burning software (burning part) have anything to do with the WAV quality. It's more like that converting part of the burning program. You should give the Plextor burning software a shot first. If it sucks, you will always have Nero.

serialb

 

[aircooled]

Your Plextor will come with Easy CD Creator. Most people will tell you it sucks, but I actually like it. It'll work just fine for burning audio, and the user inteface is sweet.

The most reliable burn will be to put all of the data you want on the CD in one setting, and "close" the CD.

 

[salsal]

I agree with aircooled. I use both PM200 and EZ CD Creator with my Plextor. Both work fine. EZ offers better interface than PM2k. Direct CD also works fine.