What's the difference between just copying a CD and 'create image' and 'burn image'?
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Water
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Yes, I'm pretty sure there is no difference. When you burn a direct copy, one optical drive is reading the data and sending it to the other drive to burn to the disc. When you make an image it just copies the disc to the hard drive and then lets you burn that image to a disc. Its digital so all your really doing is copying 1s and 0s from one disc to another.
Wigwam Jones
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They are three different things.
When you make a copy, you create an identical copy of a CD onto another CD. There is no intermediate step (there may be, but you don't see it). Start with a CD, end with an identical CD.
When you make an image, you create a file on your computer hard drive that represents a CD. Typically, this file ends with the extention '.iso'.
When you burn an image, you take an .iso file and recreate an identical copy of that CD that the image came from originally.
So you can copy CD->CD.
Or, you can create an image from CD->.ISO FILE
And then you can burn an image from .ISO FILE -> CD
Each has reasons. Personally, I tend to make an image of a CD (or DVD) and then I can burn copies of it whenever I like. But it's up to you which serves your needs best.
When you make a copy, you create an identical copy of a CD onto another CD. There is no intermediate step (there may be, but you don't see it). Start with a CD, end with an identical CD.
When you make an image, you create a file on your computer hard drive that represents a CD. Typically, this file ends with the extention '.iso'.
When you burn an image, you take an .iso file and recreate an identical copy of that CD that the image came from originally.
So you can copy CD->CD.
Or, you can create an image from CD->.ISO FILE
And then you can burn an image from .ISO FILE -> CD
Each has reasons. Personally, I tend to make an image of a CD (or DVD) and then I can burn copies of it whenever I like. But it's up to you which serves your needs best.
whoaru99
Epic Member
When I copy my CDs, right or wrong, I just save them a WAV files. Then, when I want a CD, I just burn one using the WAV files.
I doubt the CD itself is an exact copy of the original in that case, but seems to work well enough since the files are lossless and then I also have them on my computer music library.
I doubt the CD itself is an exact copy of the original in that case, but seems to work well enough since the files are lossless and then I also have them on my computer music library.