On Tuesday 27 May 2003 01:29 pm, Tom Brinkman graced me with: > On Tuesday May 27 2003 06:45 am, Technoslick wrote: > > This is good stuff, Tom. Have you ever posted your own "HOW-TO" > > on mixing, normalizing and burning anywhere that I can get my > > hands on it? <snip> > Actually I've posted much the same info about CL burning of > CD's over the past year or so. A search on the archive for biso, > bdcd and bacd will probly turn'em up. Most of my stuff is just my > preferences (opinions ;) based on the CD-Writing HOWTO and 'man > cdrecord, mkisofs, cdparanoia, normalize, mp3_check' with others > suggestions and ideas added in.
I know you have, but it's not the same as seeing it all nicely gift wrapped as an article from A- Z. A lot of newbies are still finding out about Google, best ways to search the lists and where else to find answers. The HOW-TO's that come with a distro are anywhere from fair to excellent, from easy to understand to far in outer techno space. It's nice to see a local-yocal authoring who has already earned some respect for soild and useful experience. > To tell the truth, I've gotten the impression most people still > prefer to cling to usin a GUI frontend to do all this stuff for > them. It's just my view that many don't understand (or care to) the > ramifications and pitfalls of lettin GUI make choices for them. > Specially when it comes to 'on the fly' burning processes and > speeds, any OS. I use to be one'a 'em. Your helping me here, Tom. You gotta stop talkin' or you are going to fall into my trap. :-) You just said it. You don't know why more people don't use the CL. So....educate them! Give the people a HOW-TO on gettting the most out the CL, as you explain to them how to burn music and audio CD's. See? You are slowly falling into my power of persuation. :-D > Their preferences and choice are surely their right, but I > still think they'd be better off exploring the docs and becomin > familiar with cdrecord, mkisofs, cdparanoia and such. If nothin > else it would make some of the options in GUI's better understood. > Probly many less coasters too ;) I have to accept that as an axiom. One must explore the starting points. All you would do is put your own twist, to the point, step-by-step, as you see it, into the article. > Anyhow, the HOWTO already exists on your system under > Documentation | Howto's and 'man .......' If everybody just adopted > my preferences, and didn't develop and post their own, I'd (we'd) > miss out on maybe findin even better ways to do stuff. That's > certainly a good, if not the best, part of how I learn to do stuff. What's wrong with your preferences as a starting point? Newbies don't have a lot of preferences. That's why they come here. For answers and to get some! :-) I'm not pushing you or anything. <nudge> Nope. <nudge> I wouldn't do that to you. <more nudging> But, <nudge, nudge> I would be remiss in not <nudge> making my point. You should write some stuff up. <nudge, nudge> I won't bring it up anymore. <big push> OK? T <slipping away quickly before he gets whacked...> P.S. Be happy to carry on the OT on racing, off-list....anytime. I mean it!
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