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Re: Reading defective CDs

Subject: Re: Reading defective CDs
From: Neil Tungate <>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:08:10 +0000
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:39:20 -0300, Jeremy Minns wrote:

>Can anyone recommend software - preferably free - for recovering files from 
>defective CDs? My computer was stolen last year. I had most of the stuff 
>backed up but am now trying to recover a few cuts from analogue tapes which 
>I digitalized and saved as WAV files on CD. In some cases Windows or Cool 
>Edit 2000 reads most of the file but then stops and I lose even what it has 
>already read.

If you mean you saved the files as audio CDs, then try Exact Audio Copy
from http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

It's very good at extracting wav files from bad CDRs.
-- 
Neil Tungate 
http://www.skipper.org.uk


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