Curious ISRC reading issue...

WaveLab
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I created some master disks and sent to a client, I have the Wavelab CD montage, a Plextools Pro disk report of the actual physical master and a reference disk which I keep myself.

I have read the ISRC codes off with a Plextor 712A using Plextools pro and also a Plextor 716SA in a different machine
using the latest version of Plextools. The ISRC codes are all perfectly ok as far as my burners/Plextools report.

The client says he is reading the ISRC as starting with GAEGD instead of GB67P that I read.

Clients software and hardware:

ISRC viewer, wavelab 5 (demo) & Exact Audio Copy on a HP Touchsmart IQ770 (Windows Vista/Serial ATA Harddrive) and ISRC viewer on an Acer Aspire 9300 laptop (Windows XP).

Is it just his 2 consumer drives are incapable of correctly reading ISRC?

It’s a conundrum.

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Out of interest I installed this :

http://en.true-audio.com/Tau_Analyzer_-_CD_Authenticity_Detector

Which can read ISRC codes, incidently ISRCviewer trial stated my OEM burner in my desktop internet PC was capable of reading ISRC codes then requested I pay for the full version.at $9.95

Tau Analyzer received garbage for the ISRC from my OEM generic drive, not conslusive but it does strongly suggest many generic OEM drives can’t read ISRC properly.

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yes, that’s exactly the problem.
I experienced it myself. With my LG no problem at all. With my Pioneer it’s a nightmare. Some drives just can’t get it right.