Why is disk-to-disk burning bad?
Most software packages have the option of disk-to-disk recording. This means you can put your source CD in your CD-ROM drive, a blank in your burner, and your computer copies it in one step. While this is a convenient way to copy CD’s, it is not recommended. Reading a source CD and writing to a blank CD are both (in simple terms) complicated processes which are not easy for a computer to perform. By doing them both at once, which is the case with disk-to-disk recording, you are basically asking your computer to do more at once than it is capable. Burning disk-to-disk will greatly increase the likelihood of errors on the CD’s you burn. In addition, it will highly increase the amount of burns which will go bad. When a burn goes bad, it usually stops in the middle of burning, and then you are stuck with a CD, which either won’t play or will only play the first few tracks. The best way to copy a CD is to first extract .wav files onto your hard drive, and then write the .wav’s to the blank
