> abrasion and collecting dust, the records are still good after many > decades. This is absolutely not the case with home-burnt CD-Rs. I have > experienced failures on several CDs which were not older than three > years...
Ouch. I noticed CD-R go yellow after days/weeks in a little sun or warmth. Not good. I suspect the quality of blanks has gone downhill since they cost about $4. For audio, I'd back it up on data CD. There's a very nifty program called shorten which is like a gzip, but works much better on audio data. It's anywhere from lossless to lossy. You can set the bits to keep - 16 is lossless. Vinyl probably doesn't have more than 14, so instead of keeping the noise, might as well discard it and save some space. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
