Nero CD Speed

The program is located in the Nero Toolkit folder and is started as follows: Start > Programs > Ahead Nero > Nero Toolkit > Nero CD Speed.

Note: The user interface of Nero CD Speed is currently only available in English!

Nero CD Speed is a benchmark program which can be used to obtain detailed information on the capabilities of your CD/DVD drives. Knowledge of audio extraction capability (Digital Audio Extraction - DAE) is particularly important for saving audio tracks on hard disk and for copying audio CDs because audio data is extracted digitally from CDs.

We cannot give any generally valid figures just for extraction from audio CDs. It is useful to know the audio extraction speed capability of the installed equipment particularly when making fast copies of audio CDs, to avoid the buffer running empty.

Detailed information on how audio extraction capability can be tested using Nero can be found in the Section 'Verifying audio read quality'.

Nero CD Speed provides you with information on the following sectors:

  1. Insert an audio CD into the CD-/DVD drive.
  2. Start the program and select the desired drive by clicking on the drop down button and selecting the drive.
  3. Click on the Start button to carry out the most important tests.
  4. Look in the 'DAE quality' sector to find out how big the DAE value of the selected drive is. If it has good DAE capability there will be a tick in this sector. If no tick has appeared you should use another drive for digital extraction of audio files.

    All commands can be reached easily via the menus. One of the things you can define using the File menu Options command is which tests are to be carried out. The changes in the settings are saved by clicking on the Apply button and the window is then closed.

    More information on Nero CD Speed and Nero DriveSpeed can be found on the website WWW.CDSpeed2000.com. You will find many useful tips on using the program as well as the latest versions of the program.


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