Replication involves making a glass master and then manufacturing CD's using it. It costs more and is usually used for larger runs, say a thousand or more coppies. Duplication on the other hand, is simply burning CDR's, which is quicker, cheaper, and usually used for small runs of say 1000 or less coppies.
Duplication relies on whatever you send the plant. If there is anything at all wrong with your master, they will happily copy it for you.
Talk to whomever is going to be manufacturing or burning the discs, and ask them which format they prefer - a CDR, bin+cue, a DDP fileset, etc. At the very least, they will want accurate pq indices, and metadata like artist, album, track names, genre, etc.
Chris At 06:33 PM 7/17/2012, you wrote:
I am re-doing a CD, adding new songs, removing songs ... which is the better process for doing the CDs, replication or duplication? And, is manufactured CDs a better quality?<http://www.rogerbaccus.com>http://www.rogerbaccus.com
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