CD Pops and Ticks

[Todd Madson <crash@waste.org>]

Several reasons exist for this:

(1) Never copy CD data off of a CD-ROM drive for putting on a CD-R.
    always copy to a fast hard drive and burn from there.

(2) Don't run unnecessary TSRs (Win) or Extensions (Mac) if you can
    help it.

(3) If your CD-R drive is a SCSI device, make sure it's the last device
    in the chain or better yet, have it be the only device in the chain.

(4) If you have lots of ram, devote at least 32 megs of it to the buffer
    used in your CD burning program.

(5) Make sure your hard drive is defragmented before burning.  You want
    a fast, smooth, uninterrupted flow of data from the drive to the CD-r.

(6) If your source files sound fine, then you may be running into some 
    program interfering with the flow of data from the hard disc to the
    cd-r drive.

(7) If this is the case, exit all programs and leave the CD burning 
    program running.

(8) Turn off virtual memory and anything else that plays havoc with system
    level interrupts.  

(9) If you are running a Mac be sure and use the Motorola math-lib
    available for free at their site - this will let you get every bit
    of speed out of the machine.

(10) Shut off all screen savers.

(11) Win98 is, shall we say, unstable at times.  For best results, you
     may wish to use 95.  Your mileage may vary.