>>And this is the one of the MOST important factors, because EVERY CD you >>burn will have errors, thats why the Reed Solomon correction process is >>inside every CD player ! Also Dat has errors ! >>Thats why they still prefer well done analog tape to begin with. > >And what causes the errors you mentioned on every (Audio?)-CD that >anybody burns at home? > I could be wrong but think there is some kind of error correction redundancy in computer type data files (i.e. SDII or AIFF files) that is left out when they are converted into the format that is used on audio CDs. I guess CD players have some other method of detecting and compensating for errors. Anyway as I understand it that is why you can put more songs on an audio format CD than you can if you are burning it as a data format CD. Dennis Gunn Mightyjohn@... check out MIGHTY JOHN HENRY's album "hot air head" info at http://www.twics.com/~mightyjo/home.html