Plextools - What's it's use?? - Club CDFreaks

Nila · 10-06-2002

hmmm,
i got a plextor 12432Tsi (Internal SCSI) and I just decided to download the latest version of Plextools and give it a try.

I installed it and started to play with it and cant find any real use for it.

What's it good for?
It doesn't seem to cddb lookup's so ripping with it is a pain as it wont fill in the CD info.
The ripping speeds seem to be no faster than EAC, Audiograbber, MediaJukebox etc. so what is the real advantage or purpose of it??
It's really badly designed too.

Anyone know if it has any real use other than being a really cheap program that Plextor can supply to customers to do basic stuff with?

little-endian · 10-06-2002

The only possible advantage of the Plex Tools, I remind, is its automatic offset correction. If you don't know the offset values for your Plex drives, this can be much easier to create a 1:1 copy.

But I never needed them really. All the tasks, speed setting, accessing audio tracks as wave files (audiofs.vxd), offset correction, can be done with 3rd party tools, and this (much) better.

*Upp3rd0G* · 10-06-2002

I agree, all features of Plextools are also available in other programs. I use the following programs: EAC, Nero, Feurio, CloneCD for copying/creating/ripping audio cds.

10-06-2002	#1 (permalink)
Nila New on Forum Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: England Posts: 23	Plextools - What's it's use?? <a href='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a13febf7&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE' target='_blank'><img src='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=30&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a13febf7' border='0' alt='' /></a> hmmm, i got a plextor 12432Tsi (Internal SCSI) and I just decided to download the latest version of Plextools and give it a try. I installed it and started to play with it and cant find any real use for it. What's it good for? It doesn't seem to cddb lookup's so ripping with it is a pain as it wont fill in the CD info. The ripping speeds seem to be no faster than EAC, Audiograbber, MediaJukebox etc. so what is the real advantage or purpose of it?? It's really badly designed too. Anyone know if it has any real use other than being a really cheap program that Plextor can supply to customers to do basic stuff with?

10-06-2002	#3 (permalink)
Upp3rd0G CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: NL Posts: 2,108	I agree, all features of Plextools are also available in other programs. I use the following programs: EAC, Nero, Feurio, CloneCD for copying/creating/ripping audio cds. __________________ You can help us to help you even better. You can help fund our research Please read the rules Please detail your problem... What info do U provide? Try our Search... function Please read this for more info on audio copy protections

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little-endian CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 280	The only possible advantage of the Plex Tools, I remind, is its automatic offset correction. If you don't know the offset values for your Plex drives, this can be much easier to create a 1:1 copy. But I never needed them really. All the tasks, speed setting, accessing audio tracks as wave files (audiofs.vxd), offset correction, can be done with 3rd party tools, and this (much) better.