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| Posted by | Dennis |
| Posted on | 15/03/02 10:39 |
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Let's have a look at the first CloneCD button: Read to ImageFile. After pressing this button you will get a new screen
where you can choose the desired device for reading. On the left of the screen you can choose the device, on the right
of the screen the device capabilities will be mentioned. Same as always. After selecting our desired reader we get to
see the new CloneCD interface:
Hey? Where have all the options gone to? Well as you can see CloneCD has undergone some radical changes here. It now focuses more on the use of Profiles and the advanced settings are now 'hidden'. This was done to make CloneCD easier to use and you can now just select the type of disc you're trying to read:
- Audio CD
- Data CD
- Game CD
- Multimedia Audio CD
After selecting the type of disc you can just press the 'Next' button. Before we do that we will of course first show you where the advanced options have gone to and how you can use the Profiles. When right clicking on one of the Profiles you get the following options:
- New : Creates a new Profile.
- Edit ... : This will take you to the advanced settings.
- Copy : Copy the current Profile.
- Rename : Rename the current Profile.
- Delete : Remove the current Profile.
All options are pretty self-explaining. You can modify existing Profiles, create new ones and remove them. The 'Edit ...' option will take you to the advanced settings of the current Profile:
As you can see the advanced options have now been divided into three sections: 'Data Read Settings', 'Audio Read Settings' and 'Error Handling'. The 'Data Read Settings' let's you set the read speed for data disc and gives you the option to read SubChannel Data or not.
The 'Audio Read Settings' let's you set the read speed for audio discs. Besides that you can select the 'Audio Extraction Quality' which will help you get better quality when extracting audio discs. This feature is currently still being developed.
With the last two options you can choose if you want to read SubChannel Data and select another new option: 'Only read the first Session'. We think this option will help to back-up multisession discs like audio+data. In this case only the audio part will be extracted and the (possibly protected) data part will be left alone.
We have another settings here which deals with the way CloneCD should handle errors present on the disc. A simple Off, On or Automatic setting:
The 'Automatic' setting which is enabled by default will switch the 'Fast Error Skip' option on and off automatically depending on the contents of the media. This will help users back-up disc with the SafeDisc protection for example:
If a number of good sectors are read, the 'Fast Error Skip' option will be switched off again automatically (and an event will be written in the CloneCD Log). This greatly eases the use of CloneCD, and the quality of the copy increases dramatically. In a nutshell: leave it to automatic all the time, and you'll be happy.
The 'Intelligent Bad Sector Scanner' is still present and the other two options ('Abort on Read Error' and 'Don't report read errors') are also familiar.
After checking the advanced settings we can continue to read a normal data disc:
Drive Setup:
I don't see how a new installation-procedure will benefit the user at all!
In fact, this "new" version doesn't seem to have so much more to offer that the old version doesn't already have!
It's nice though that he's trying to make it more user-friendly for the newbies!
The only thing I care about in CloneCD is the copy-protection stuff (duh, that's what the proggy is for) but I guess we'll have to wait for the full version to see if there are any changes...
If there isn't, I don't really see any point in upgrading...
This seems more like a version made for the beginners, us hardcore peeps can stick with the old version, he he! :7
Otherwise .. it looks nice, but not much news for the hardcore CloneCD users !
Clone cd is a high quality program deep respect for oli and his team who delevoped it.
But so far CD-Cops and Tagès is still a no-go......
There is also a new feature in this CloneCD that is really intresting. When you read for e.g a SafeDisc protected CD, CloneCD will find the first weak sectors, then slow down and check again, after several reads it will know if the sector is really weak and start to check the next one, if it finds several weak sectors it will guess the CD is protected and skip a lot of them. BUT !!! This would normally mean it would also skip good sectors, and thats the trick, this new version will automagically notice that the weak sector part is finished and start read normally again. This could make for some protections and readers the reading process a lot faster...
And that's intresting...
Can't wait till this new version can be downloaded as a trial! :9
But this is one step forward in its development, making it available to the average consumer. This will put CloneCD right on the map with Easy CD Creator and Nero as far as the average consumer is concerned (the expert users already knew this program to be tops).
That was a thing that CD-Mate did before CloneCD: make the copy process easier.
Well, Uhm technical review? We will wait for the official version with that
well done.
Fantastic job Olli, love the new graphics
When the oficila version comes out review its copying abilities!!!
ps-> how i determine the best error corrections settings for my yamaha 2200e(20/10/40)?!?:0
To date I have always used CloneCD to "clone" or copy audio CDs. So why DAE?
Again my thanks to Ollie!
whitetie
"A) The world's first preview of CloneCD v4.x (actual version 3.5.3.4)"
It looks the same as the 3.5 CD Freaks looked at. Are they calling it 4.0 just to hype it up or what?
There is currently no official name for the CloneCD version. To us it was introduced as CloneCD X, I have also seen it distributed on CD as CloneCD 4. They are all the same, but as you know Ian, someone always wants to be world exclusive
Ian I can therefore say that CDRInfo does not have CloneCD 4 if they are using 3.5.3.4 and they're hyping things up. Btw I don't see their review on their site?
Regards,
GF
It could very well be that this will become version 4, but then again, it is also possible that the real version 4 has yet to be developed. By calling it version 4 they are trying to claim a scoop, while in fact it isn't (well, not for them, it was for us, they posted tthis at March 16, while our review was posted on March 15, 1 day before CDR Info...
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AND
the cebit is out now but there is no download
or it's not posted - but when should the final version be available??? 
oh yea, great article.
(*looks around to see if anyone is looking* ...erm...say india...that key generator u were talking about...where dya get it from?)
... until I installed Perfect Copy SRIII.
After installation I immediately went to a disk that I hadn't been able to successfully after 5 or 6 attempts. Needless to say, the copy turned out PERFECT!!:G Now, I am a MOST satisfied CloneCD user, again!!!:4
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