In my old age, I have decided to sell off all my books and CDs. Before I send a CD out, I test it for playability. Nero has a superb program that scans the surfaces of all optical media and provides results in terms of readable sectors. It allows me to identify the track number and, by implication, the physical location of the problem. I have been able to find and clean nearly invisible smudges this way.
as far as i know, since mint and ubuntu are both debian-based they should play nicely together. i actually use an ubuntu-based (bodhi) distro and keep ubuntu mate loaded on another partition just in case. i will try loading up in ubuntu mate since it is a fairly fresh install.
Burning a CD is not the issue. Checking the quality of commercial music CDs is the problem. I am selling all mine, and want to perform a surface scan to make sure the buyer will be happy.
Brasero works beautifully as a burner, and K3B is excellent as a ripper. But surface scans? Only DiscSpeed seems to have what I need.
@cliffsloane it occurred to me that i was looking specifically for nero.exe just because that was what the terminal said was missing when i tried to run wine nero. can you check when you run discspeed to see if perhaps the exe has some other name? and, if possible, it lives in system32 or syswow64? my guess is 32, but just to be sure
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