Set write preferences
After you have finished the project list in the screen before you can now adjust the write options to your needs and preferences. Using Ashampoo Burning Studio 9 you even have the ability to select how many discs you want to create. |
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CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc-Writer: |
If you have more than one CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc recorder installed on your system you are able to select the drive you want to use for burning the CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc. Ashampoo Burning Studio 9 comes with driver support for virtually all current CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc recorders. If you have one of the few recorders not supported by the program please check our |
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Just click on the Open Tray button to open the tray of the selected drive and insert the appropriate disc. |
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Depends on inserted disc. If you adjust your personal settings, the options will be displayed in this screen too.
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Click on the Change Options button if you want to adjust your personal settings for the burning process.
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Clicking on the < Back button will cancel the current process and will bring you back to the Edit Files and Folders screen |
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Click on Write CD > (6) to record the CD, D |
Change write preferences
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Write Speed: |
If you want, you can set this option to your recorder’s maximum speed, but remember that faster recording speeds may result in a slightly degraded performance when reading the CD, particularly with older CD recorders.
Note: Some recent high-speed CD recorders are no longer able to record at 1x speed. This is because at this low speed their very powerful lasers would damage the CD-R disc and make it unusable. |
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Simulate recording before burning: |
If this is the first time you’re recording a CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc with Ashampoo Burning Studio 9 it’s a good idea to check this option. Then the program will just simulate the recording process, without actually writing any data to the CD-R physically. If anything goes wrong, you’ll get an error message. You won’t waste a disc. |
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Verify written files and folders after recording: |
If this option is selected, the program will verify the contents of the disc after the recording (the files on the disc are compared with the original files). This is a useful feature if you want to be absolutely certain that the files on the disc are correct (for example if you make a backup of important files). If any errors are found this is usually an indication that there is some sort of incompatibility between your CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc writer and the recordable disc you are writing to. Decreasing the write speed or using higher-quality recordable discs can solve these problems. |
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Finalize the CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc. After discs have been finalized, they cannot be changed anymore. |
This option usually doesn’t need to be changed, since finalizing a disc prevents you from changing it again later. However, there are two circumstances where you might want to create a finalized disc:
1. Some CD players (the kind in a car or your stereo, not in a computer) cannot read CDs that are not finalized. However, the majority of these devices will accept them. 2. You can squeeze slightly more data onto a CD if you finalize it. So if your files are slightly too big for the CD activating the finalize option might help.
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Burn CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc in Disc At Once mode: |
In this mode the CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc is burned in one go, instead of burning each track individually. For data CDs this is not much of a difference, because they only contain a single data track. However, if Disc-At-Once mode is deactivated for Audio CDs there may be very short periods of noise between the individual audio tracks. Because of this, it is recommended to use Disc-At-Once mode for Audio CDs. |
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Copy all data to hard |
Select this option if you use a slower computer system or if you recognized write errors while you simulate the recording. |
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If you agree in the settings Ashampoo Burning Studio 9 has adjust automatically or after you have done your personal settings click on the OK button to confirm your adjustments and go back to the Write Options dialog (see above) |
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If you don’t want to change any settings, just click on the Cancel Button and go back to the Write Options dialog (see above). |