Hi guys, I'm new here. I stumbled onto this site a few weeks ago and think it's such a cool site! Never in a million years would have suspected such a vast technical knowledge base was simply at my fingertips! I've been pouring through these threads day-by-day, trying to absorb as much as I possibly can! Well the time has come to start making my own music archive and I have been using the help guide here for information. Everything started out just fine until I found:

1) all links pointing to "Easy MD5 Creator" are broken or no longer exist? This doesn't seem like it will be too big of a problem because many other programs appear to do much the same thing. I'm simply including this hoping someone knows of a valid link to the program?

2)My main problem right now is with EAC itself...The installation appeared to go just fine and I'm proceeding through the "wizard" like the guide instructed me to. The glitch is in the section were the wizard instructs me to "place a scratch-free music disc into the drive" for testing....I placed my newest disc(NOT a R or R/W but an official store purchased copy)in the drive and after hitting "next" the wizard came up with a window saying "no audio tracs detected on the disc you placed in the drive, try a different disc"? ....WELL, I tried a different disc and it told me the same thing, in fact I've tried four seperate discs and it continues to give me this same message? I have two CD RW drives one is a lite-on(unknown model) the other is a generic model that i'm not sure about(i'm at work writting this, but I can find out exact model #'s if needed).....

Has anyone else ever encountered this problem?

Try this....

Download wnaspi32.dll from:

http://www.nero.com/us/WNASPI32.DLL.html

Put it in the same folder as EAC.exe.

Edit: Forgot to add....

In EAC, EAC Options (F9)->Interface tab->(check) Installed external ASPI interface

Still says the same thing.....now that i'm back at my machine I can quote "EAC couldn't find a CD in the drive to be tested. Make sure a CD containing audio tracks is inserted in the drive named on the top of the dialog. Please try again or go back to the previuos screen."

"LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-811S" is the "drive named at the top of the dialog".

I tried selecting my other drive only and running through the same screens. Ended up with the exact same message...that drive is named "IDE-CD R/RW 8x4x32"

My machine has Nero on it, it's the program that came with my first older burner. I've tried to keep up with the latest drivers/patches all along for Nero without having to buy the latest software from Ahead...I'm at Nero Burning ROM v 5.5.10.56 if this helps?

Huh, sorry about that....

Maybe you could try searching or posting over at the EAC forums, if you haven't done so already.

http://www.digital-inn.de/forumdisplay.php?forumid=14

Anyway, I found a working link to Easy MD5 Creator on post #50 on this page (@ Wilders Security Forums):

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread....86&page=2&pp=25

Oh, wow, I fired up Nero to be able to write down the version # on the last post and everything has started working! Uhhhhhh, this gives me a bad feeling though. usually when I encounter these small problems early-on like this, it means I have done something fundamentally wrong from the start? Ok, I will continue and hope for the best? Thank you very much odious!