>I was under the impression that the audio and data disks work in computer >burners, HOWEVER ONLY AUDIO disks work in stand-alone burners. Can anyone >confirm this?
That is generally true. Those classified as "consumer" decks require the expensive, royalty-inclusive 'audio' or 'music' discs, which are of essentially identical manufacture *except* they have an embedded signal bit in them that tells the "consumer" deck this is a royalty-paid disc. What's worse is that these decks have the same SCMS (Serial Copy Management System) circuitry in them that plagued 'consumer' DAT decks, which embeds a signal in the copy made that tells other 'consumer' decks that 'this is a copy, he's had his one allowed copy, this copy isn't copyable.' (that's the significance of that 'digital copy permitted' flag you see in some burner software; PC burners ignore those flags but 'consumer' standalones do not). As with DAT decks before them (this all started with the RIAA freaking over the advent of DAT in the 80s, certain THAT technology would be the one to decimate their sales), there is an exemption for standalones classified as "professional' decks, which is why Pro decks like the Tascams and HHBs happily eat regular Mitsui, TY etc, AND ignore the one-copy-only SCMS flag. They do a vastly better job of extracting than the 'consumer' standalones, too - in one informal test reported here or somewhere the HHB consistently produced the same file as EAC. Don't be too leery of a pro standalone in your show's lineage, but avoid shows with 'consumer' decks like the Philips in their family tree. ;-} w _______________________________________________ etree mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://mail.etree.org/mailman/listinfo/etree
