Performance in Nero CD DAE

I used two programs to check the drives at extracting audio tracks and converting them into WAV-files. Nero CD DAE was the first of them – it is a standard audio ripping utility:

The final screenshots above indicate that the LG GDR-8163B has made the job done faster. Unfortunately, it has committed some errors, while the slower Samsung TS-H352 has not.

Exact Audio Copy

The second audio extraction utility, Exact Audio Copy, differs from Nero CD DAE as it is capable of making use of the hardware characteristics of optical drives to achieve the maximum quality of the resulting files. I used the EAC utility to determine the hardware properties of the drives and then to extract audio tracks (in the Secure Mode) from the same disc as in the previous test; the tracks were saved as WAV-files.

To check out the support of C2 errors, a special “bad” audio disc was used, prepared by Nero CD-DVD Speed. Running a little ahead, I must admit that both drives support this function.

  
LG GDR-8163B

  
Samsung TSH-352

The resulting screenshots say that the LG GDR-8163B is faster at extracting audio tracks and converting them into WAV-files. None of the drives committed any error in the test.