This in-house written utility has proven to be stable, precise and useful. It offers high quality audio and multimedia capabilities and advanced control of several powerful features of Plextor drives. The distinctive design allows ease of use for newcomers without compromising on the powerful features that experienced burners demand.
Here's the overview of the functions:
- 'General Information' lists the drive's hardware, including jumper settings.
- 'Drive Settings' controls the drive's adjustable settings, like: read speed, spindle motor spin-down time, etc.
- 'Drive Information' shows the capabilities of the drive.
- 'CD/DVD Info' reveals extensive information about the inserted disc, like: format, sessions and tracks, manufacturer, CD TEXT, etc.
- 'Multimedia Player' uses the installed MCI devices for playback of MIDI, Audio and Video files.
- 'AudioCD Player' uses the installed MCI devices for playback of AudioCD's.
- 'Digital Audio Extraction' delivers high-precision WAV, MP3, OGG and APE files from audio tracks, with extra features like a choice of Smart Advanced DAE Error Recovery Strategies, freedb support, and CD TEXT editing as well as ID3-tag editing when MP3 encoding.
- 'AudioCD Maker' creates personalised Audio CD's from WAV, MP3, OGG and APE files, with editable CD TEXT or ID3-tag and freedb support.
'CD-ROM Maker' gives the opportunity to create standard CD-ROM's by a simple Drag&Drop&Burn action. This handy function can be used for storage or backup of files and folders, as wel as an easy way to transport data between computers. - 'CD Copy' for accurate CD duplicating with the capability to add CD TEXT or freedb information and even create or burn ISO images.
- 'CD/DVD RW Functions' erases CD-RW and DVD RW discs so data can again be written to them.
- 'CD Test' scans your disc for uncorrectable errors and identifies potential read errors.
- 'Read Transfer Rate Test' performs a sequential reading of all sectors on the disc while calculating the transfer rate at the same time.
- 'Write Transfer Rate Test' performs a sequential write test while calculating the transfer rate at the same time.
- 'Drive Settings' page with GigaRec, SecuRec and Silent Mode.
- 'Q Check C1/C2 Test' measures the quality of a written or pressed disc by counting the number of low level errors.
- 'Q Check FE/TE Test' measures the mechanical characteristics of blank media.
- 'Q Check Beta/Jitter' shows the write quality by checking the jitter rate and the beta value of written media.