Best way of copying Audio CDs to CD

[Harry]

I did this once about 5 years ago using a free program which is still free called Audiograbber. With that program I copied the audio CD to my drive and then burned it with Nero. But I was wondering if it might be possible to burn it directly from a CD Rom to my burner. That would save time. I still have to check if I have the space in my computer for the CD Rom Drive since I already have two hard drives and a DVD burner in there. The DVD burner of course doubles up as a CD burner.

The other thing I wonder about is if Nero can copy the CD audio to my drive if I have to do it that. I'm using Nero 6.6.0.3

There is no copying protection on the CD Rom to be copied as these are personally made CDs of composed music.

[ktkendall]

Probably you can add a cdrom but it most likely will be a slave to the dvd-rom so it would actually proabbly end up slower than copying to your harddrive then burning it over to cd-r . If your PC has just the standard 2 IDE ports then 4 ide drives is your max and that is primary master/slave and secondary master/slave and the thing about that is that the 2 drives that share a channel as master slave have to take turns reading or writing data, and I for one never really trusted copying from cdrom to burner with them configurd as master/slave. You can just check your device manager and see what you have available as ports for drives on that PC..

[mjkovis]

Harry, I use Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator. It works great if you want to burn your own audio CD's from your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM to your burner. You will always lose quality each time you copy something, but I have never had a problem with this.

AK

[glc]

The Nero copy function can do it either way - on the fly from a source to a target drive, or through a hard drive image. It can even use the same drive for source and target, using the hard drive for a temporary image. No need to use Audiograbber or put a second optical drive in, you can just do it the same way you are doing it now using Nero's copy disk function.

[Harry]

Thanks