I'm going to be looking at <http://www.elpros.si/CDCheck/> for this. It's
reported to :-
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
 "also provides detailed reporting of any errors detected."                 
                                                                            
 Haven't tried it yet - might get a chance tonight. (It's a "free for home  
 use " licence).                                                            
                                                                            
 I did look at (http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/) but it requires $40        
 payment to be able to save the recovered data & didn't look as if it gave  
 out too much info on errors rates detected.                                
 http://www.naltech.com/index.htm appears similarly restricted.             
 (All these links are from                                                  
 <http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/delivering/cdr-dvdr.html>)                   
                                                                            
 The article below (http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/gipwg/StabilityStudy.pdf 
 ) appears to correlate jitter with error rate to a reasonable degree, so   
 something that monitored the raw data from the CD & displayed the jitter   
 level may be a useful indication of pending failure. Might not be too hard 
 to implement if you can get access to the raw data stream. Maybe a         
 suitable project for the SX contest!                                       
                                                                            
 Richard P                                                                  
                                                                            
                                                                            
 (http://www.naltech.com/index.htm).                                        
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            





> http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/gipwg/StabilityStudy.pdf

Quite interesting...
Does anyone know a program (freeware maybe? Whatever OS, as long as it's
for a PC) that measures/quantifies/checks CD quality? I noticed that some
CDs I have take a few minutes to be recognized by the computer... Other
than that I have no way of evaluating the quality of my discs.

Thanks,
Christian





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