Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
Thanks, Rusty. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:54 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please yes, mp3 files, wma files, wav files, etc etc etc. Hth, Rusty At 09:44 AM 6/15/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
That's right. I just copied mine to the harddrive, using CDex, then used Nero to burn them onto a CD as MP3s. I used ten of my disks. I have over 200 songs on my MP3 CD. I think I'll sell the originals in a garage sale. Then I'll have more room to store more blank CD's, which will be burned, eventually. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:34 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Well, then we're all ready to go online or to a brick and morar store, buy our blank CD/Rs and jewel cases, launch our burning program of choice, and lay some good music down on a disc. No harm done, indeed! launch - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Daniel. No problem. Everything's fine. There sure has been a lot of discussion about this. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 9:47 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Gary, I'm so sorry if it sounded as if I was snapping at you. I was tired and frustrated about something else last night. But I honestly had become puzzled as to why a couple of people were answering me after I asked just one kind of question with so much basic information about CD/R recording that I hadn't asked anything about. I kept politely saying thanks, I knew that but I'm sure others will appreciate this, etc., but no one seemed to see that I was saying I knew everything but the answer to the particular question that I was asking. I just got annoyed after this kept happening. anyway, as before, I'm sure someone benefited by hearing about all this stuff for the first time, just as I did only some weeks ago on this list, when I was actually asking those questions and receiving instruction. Thanks again, and sorry if I was rude. Daniel - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:03 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I guess I shouldn't have. I just thought I'd mention it, incase you didn't know. Sorry about that. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:46 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I know that. How come you're telling me? - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:29 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please MP3 files are a tenth the size of wav files. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:00 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please ahSo the file compression puts it into the data category, even though it can be listened to, unlike most data. I see. - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:45 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please An MP3 CD is considered a data CD, as opposed to a music CD. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
Hi Chris. Thanks for clearing that up. I think I knew, but I was just trying to explain it, maybe not as well. - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:04 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Actually if you really stop and think about it, an audio cd is data too. It's not like Vinyl where a needle is used, cd's are read by a laser which decodes the data into sound. an mp3 is just like this but just compress into a different way. But we're drifting into a completely different realm of discussion. Basically to make this whole thread a lot easier for everyone to understand, most of the big name brand cdr discsfrom Maxel and other big names are good. I would say to buy the largest capacity possible, which at this point is 750 mb, or 80 minutes of audio content, if you're burning an audio cd. If you're burning data such as mp3s or other stuff, you have 750 mb to work with which is quite a little bit. I'm sure over time the capacity will grow, but for now this is the max. Also, you're going to want to use CDR discs, which are write once only discs, as opposed to CDRW discs which are re-writable again and again. The reason for this is because most audio cd players and portable units aren't able to read them because of the way they're made. But CDR discs are easier read by cd players which aren't on computers, so for the best availability, I would go with cdr discs. They're not very expensive and while you can only use them once, you'll find them to be quite good. Remember though, once it's written, it's written for good. so make sure you have absolutely everything you want on the disc before burning. It is possible to create what is called a multi-session disc which is where you can add more stuff to it, but I've seen lots of cases where the new data isn't able to be read quite as well. So it's best to get all the stuff you want on a disc all in one go. i hope i've answered all the questions in one post here. At 11:45 AM 6/15/2005, you wrote: An MP3 CD is considered a data CD, as opposed to a music CD. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
MP3 files are a tenth the size of wav files. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:00 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please ahSo the file compression puts it into the data category, even though it can be listened to, unlike most data. I see. - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:45 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please An MP3 CD is considered a data CD, as opposed to a music CD. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
I know that. How come you're telling me? - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:29 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please MP3 files are a tenth the size of wav files. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:00 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please ahSo the file compression puts it into the data category, even though it can be listened to, unlike most data. I see. - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:45 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please An MP3 CD is considered a data CD, as opposed to a music CD. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
Gary, I'm so sorry if it sounded as if I was snapping at you. I was tired and frustrated about something else last night. But I honestly had become puzzled as to why a couple of people were answering me after I asked just one kind of question with so much basic information about CD/R recording that I hadn't asked anything about. I kept politely saying thanks, I knew that but I'm sure others will appreciate this, etc., but no one seemed to see that I was saying I knew everything but the answer to the particular question that I was asking. I just got annoyed after this kept happening. anyway, as before, I'm sure someone benefited by hearing about all this stuff for the first time, just as I did only some weeks ago on this list, when I was actually asking those questions and receiving instruction. Thanks again, and sorry if I was rude. Daniel - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:03 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I guess I shouldn't have. I just thought I'd mention it, incase you didn't know. Sorry about that. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:46 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I know that. How come you're telling me? - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:29 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please MP3 files are a tenth the size of wav files. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:00 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please ahSo the file compression puts it into the data category, even though it can be listened to, unlike most data. I see. - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:45 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please An MP3 CD is considered a data CD, as opposed to a music CD. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
okay should I get the 74 minute cds or the 80 ones. web site www.rellek.com/stevegomes phone 720-747-4990 - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:03 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I guess I shouldn't have. I just thought I'd mention it, incase you didn't know. Sorry about that. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:46 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I know that. How come you're telling me? - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:29 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please MP3 files are a tenth the size of wav files. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:00 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please ahSo the file compression puts it into the data category, even though it can be listened to, unlike most data. I see. - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:45 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please An MP3 CD is considered a data CD, as opposed to a music CD. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations
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Hi Daniel. No problem. Everything's fine. There sure has been a lot of discussion about this. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 9:47 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Gary, I'm so sorry if it sounded as if I was snapping at you. I was tired and frustrated about something else last night. But I honestly had become puzzled as to why a couple of people were answering me after I asked just one kind of question with so much basic information about CD/R recording that I hadn't asked anything about. I kept politely saying thanks, I knew that but I'm sure others will appreciate this, etc., but no one seemed to see that I was saying I knew everything but the answer to the particular question that I was asking. I just got annoyed after this kept happening. anyway, as before, I'm sure someone benefited by hearing about all this stuff for the first time, just as I did only some weeks ago on this list, when I was actually asking those questions and receiving instruction. Thanks again, and sorry if I was rude. Daniel - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:03 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I guess I shouldn't have. I just thought I'd mention it, incase you didn't know. Sorry about that. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:46 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I know that. How come you're telling me? - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:29 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please MP3 files are a tenth the size of wav files. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:00 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please ahSo the file compression puts it into the data category, even though it can be listened to, unlike most data. I see. - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:45 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please An MP3 CD is considered a data CD, as opposed to a music CD. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy
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yes, mp3 files, wma files, wav files, etc etc etc. Hth, Rusty At 09:44 AM 6/15/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive
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I think he was refering to data files that can be played in a stereo am I assuming correctly? email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: hanksmith5 skype: hanksmith5 - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:54 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please yes, mp3 files, wma files, wav files, etc etc etc. Hth, Rusty At 09:44 AM 6/15/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear
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I'd recommend 80 minutes. Firstly, if you're copying modern CD's many are over 74 minutes long and secondly, if you're compiling MP3 discs, you can get more music on them - possibly as much as another 10 tracks. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Steve Gomes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 5:07 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please okay should I get the 74 minute cds or the 80 ones. web site www.rellek.com/stevegomes phone 720-747-4990 - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:03 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I guess I shouldn't have. I just thought I'd mention it, incase you didn't know. Sorry about that. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:46 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I know that. How come you're telling me? - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:29 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please MP3 files are a tenth the size of wav files. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:00 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please ahSo the file compression puts it into the data category, even though it can be listened to, unlike most data. I see. - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:45 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please An MP3 CD is considered a data CD, as opposed to a music CD. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my
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Well, then we're all ready to go online or to a brick and morar store, buy our blank CD/Rs and jewel cases, launch our burning program of choice, and lay some good music down on a disc. No harm done, indeed! launch - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Daniel. No problem. Everything's fine. There sure has been a lot of discussion about this. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 9:47 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Gary, I'm so sorry if it sounded as if I was snapping at you. I was tired and frustrated about something else last night. But I honestly had become puzzled as to why a couple of people were answering me after I asked just one kind of question with so much basic information about CD/R recording that I hadn't asked anything about. I kept politely saying thanks, I knew that but I'm sure others will appreciate this, etc., but no one seemed to see that I was saying I knew everything but the answer to the particular question that I was asking. I just got annoyed after this kept happening. anyway, as before, I'm sure someone benefited by hearing about all this stuff for the first time, just as I did only some weeks ago on this list, when I was actually asking those questions and receiving instruction. Thanks again, and sorry if I was rude. Daniel - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:03 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I guess I shouldn't have. I just thought I'd mention it, incase you didn't know. Sorry about that. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:46 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I know that. How come you're telling me? - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:29 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please MP3 files are a tenth the size of wav files. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:00 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please ahSo the file compression puts it into the data category, even though it can be listened to, unlike most data. I see. - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:45 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please An MP3 CD is considered a data CD, as opposed to a music CD. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005
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I mean a CD burning project. Sorry if I wasn't more clear about that. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Which project is done? I'm not sure what you mean. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:23 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please project done. I've heard that for audio CD's, it's best to use the slower speeds, but it doesn't make as much of a difference with burning data CD's. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked
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Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio
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No, I didn't mean that. I meant that that's where I can go if I choose to, but I usually choose the fastest speed, and it seems to be all right for me. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:41 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Gary, you mean that you prefer to always record your CDs at the 1x speed? If so, why? thanks. - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:31 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please There's a place in Nero where you can control the write speed. There's a menu that I see. My fastest speed is 48X, so I arrow down to the others until I get down to 1X. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
Well like we stated, use the speed that's right for you. If your CD's sound okay, stay with that. It doesn't hurt to check things out. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:58 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Okay. don't worry, I'll find where you can designate burn speed. I just wish there were actually some explanation somewhere on this topic. but for that, I'd have to buy something like Burning CDs for Dummies, scan it with Open Book or submit it to be recorded, and finally learn the sort of thing I'm interested in learning. Oh, well. Maybe there's a tidbit of explanation in the Nero help files, if that isn't too much to hope for. .inomwehere - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like
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I think Gary said that he had a 16X CD, and he burned it at 24X with no problems, but it didn't work at 40X. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:47 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, could you please explain what you mean? Are you saying, you used a blank CD that was rated for 16x and recorded it at a burn setting of 40x, and that turned out all right. But then you tried recording a 16x blank CD at 48x, and that didn't work in some way? If I have it backward, please correct me so that I can understand what you're describing. Thanks. to record - Original Message - From: Gary Petraccaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've tried 16 rated at 24 and done ok, but 16 at 40 blew up fairly often. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller
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Yeah just to clarify, Nero refers to your CD as a compilation, and Easy CD Creator calls it a project. Same exact thing though. ,At 01:28 AM 6/15/2005, you wrote: I mean a CD burning project. Sorry if I wasn't more clear about that. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Which project is done? I'm not sure what you mean. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:23 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please project done. I've heard that for audio CD's, it's best to use the slower speeds, but it doesn't make as much of a difference with burning data CD's. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming
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I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows
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Ah, okay. I've been learning to use Nero, and only knew their terminology. Wouldn't it be interesting if all these programs referred to things by the same terms? Too much to ask, I guess. :-) - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 12:18 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Yeah just to clarify, Nero refers to your CD as a compilation, and Easy CD Creator calls it a project. Same exact thing though. ,At 01:28 AM 6/15/2005, you wrote: I mean a CD burning project. Sorry if I wasn't more clear about that. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Which project is done? I'm not sure what you mean. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:23 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please project done. I've heard that for audio CD's, it's best to use the slower speeds, but it doesn't make as much of a difference with burning data CD's. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
An MP3 CD is considered a data CD, as opposed to a music CD. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
ahSo the file compression puts it into the data category, even though it can be listened to, unlike most data. I see. - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:45 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please An MP3 CD is considered a data CD, as opposed to a music CD. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself
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Hi Christohpher, Let me reassure you that I know what you're talking about below, and that I of course understand that anything encoded on a CD, compressed or not, is literally data. I was just talking about the specific language being used at the moment to distinguish conventional music CDs from others. Sorry if I gave you the impression that I was so confused. Everything's fine, and thanks for the explanations. Danny - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:04 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Actually if you really stop and think about it, an audio cd is data too. It's not like Vinyl where a needle is used, cd's are read by a laser which decodes the data into sound. an mp3 is just like this but just compress into a different way. But we're drifting into a completely different realm of discussion. Basically to make this whole thread a lot easier for everyone to understand, most of the big name brand cdr discsfrom Maxel and other big names are good. I would say to buy the largest capacity possible, which at this point is 750 mb, or 80 minutes of audio content, if you're burning an audio cd. If you're burning data such as mp3s or other stuff, you have 750 mb to work with which is quite a little bit. I'm sure over time the capacity will grow, but for now this is the max. Also, you're going to want to use CDR discs, which are write once only discs, as opposed to CDRW discs which are re-writable again and again. The reason for this is because most audio cd players and portable units aren't able to read them because of the way they're made. But CDR discs are easier read by cd players which aren't on computers, so for the best availability, I would go with cdr discs. They're not very expensive and while you can only use them once, you'll find them to be quite good. Remember though, once it's written, it's written for good. so make sure you have absolutely everything you want on the disc before burning. It is possible to create what is called a multi-session disc which is where you can add more stuff to it, but I've seen lots of cases where the new data isn't able to be read quite as well. So it's best to get all the stuff you want on a disc all in one go. i hope i've answered all the questions in one post here. At 11:45 AM 6/15/2005, you wrote: An MP3 CD is considered a data CD, as opposed to a music CD. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I
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heheh, hey, that's cool. but let's keep it to Chris ok? The only one allowed to call me Christopher is my mom, and that's only when I'm in trouble. hehehe. Glad you understand everything a little better. Glad I could help. At 12:14 PM 6/15/2005, you wrote: Hi Christohpher, Let me reassure you that I know what you're talking about below, and that I of course understand that anything encoded on a CD, compressed or not, is literally data. I was just talking about the specific language being used at the moment to distinguish conventional music CDs from others. Sorry if I gave you the impression that I was so confused. Everything's fine, and thanks for the explanations. Danny - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:04 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Actually if you really stop and think about it, an audio cd is data too. It's not like Vinyl where a needle is used, cd's are read by a laser which decodes the data into sound. an mp3 is just like this but just compress into a different way. But we're drifting into a completely different realm of discussion. Basically to make this whole thread a lot easier for everyone to understand, most of the big name brand cdr discsfrom Maxel and other big names are good. I would say to buy the largest capacity possible, which at this point is 750 mb, or 80 minutes of audio content, if you're burning an audio cd. If you're burning data such as mp3s or other stuff, you have 750 mb to work with which is quite a little bit. I'm sure over time the capacity will grow, but for now this is the max. Also, you're going to want to use CDR discs, which are write once only discs, as opposed to CDRW discs which are re-writable again and again. The reason for this is because most audio cd players and portable units aren't able to read them because of the way they're made. But CDR discs are easier read by cd players which aren't on computers, so for the best availability, I would go with cdr discs. They're not very expensive and while you can only use them once, you'll find them to be quite good. Remember though, once it's written, it's written for good. so make sure you have absolutely everything you want on the disc before burning. It is possible to create what is called a multi-session disc which is where you can add more stuff to it, but I've seen lots of cases where the new data isn't able to be read quite as well. So it's best to get all the stuff you want on a disc all in one go. i hope i've answered all the questions in one post here. At 11:45 AM 6/15/2005, you wrote: An MP3 CD is considered a data CD, as opposed to a music CD. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list
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Chris, I was teasing you. I figured you use Chris in the spirit of independence and manhood, and that only Mom, when angry, uses the full name. I once explained something like this about the opposite-- guys like me in my generation deliberately began to use our full names when we left home and grew up, because we didn't want to be the nicknamed kids of our childhood anymore. I know it seems like the opposite, Chris, but in a way it's the same thing. So when I sign myself as Daniel, I'm not being formal or something. It's really what my friends call me. Dan would bbe a totally different kind of guy. Anyway, as I said, I was clear about all that stuff. But the upside of your being generous with these important basic things (like, use a CD/R, not a CD/RW, if you want no trouble playing a CD you burn, is stuff everyone needs to know, and you're getting it out there. That's what it's all about. sharing knowledge. Daniel - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:39 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please heheh, hey, that's cool. but let's keep it to Chris ok? The only one allowed to call me Christopher is my mom, and that's only when I'm in trouble. hehehe. Glad you understand everything a little better. Glad I could help. At 12:14 PM 6/15/2005, you wrote: Hi Christohpher, Let me reassure you that I know what you're talking about below, and that I of course understand that anything encoded on a CD, compressed or not, is literally data. I was just talking about the specific language being used at the moment to distinguish conventional music CDs from others. Sorry if I gave you the impression that I was so confused. Everything's fine, and thanks for the explanations. Danny - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:04 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Actually if you really stop and think about it, an audio cd is data too. It's not like Vinyl where a needle is used, cd's are read by a laser which decodes the data into sound. an mp3 is just like this but just compress into a different way. But we're drifting into a completely different realm of discussion. Basically to make this whole thread a lot easier for everyone to understand, most of the big name brand cdr discsfrom Maxel and other big names are good. I would say to buy the largest capacity possible, which at this point is 750 mb, or 80 minutes of audio content, if you're burning an audio cd. If you're burning data such as mp3s or other stuff, you have 750 mb to work with which is quite a little bit. I'm sure over time the capacity will grow, but for now this is the max. Also, you're going to want to use CDR discs, which are write once only discs, as opposed to CDRW discs which are re-writable again and again. The reason for this is because most audio cd players and portable units aren't able to read them because of the way they're made. But CDR discs are easier read by cd players which aren't on computers, so for the best availability, I would go with cdr discs. They're not very expensive and while you can only use them once, you'll find them to be quite good. Remember though, once it's written, it's written for good. so make sure you have absolutely everything you want on the disc before burning. It is possible to create what is called a multi-session disc which is where you can add more stuff to it, but I've seen lots of cases where the new data isn't able to be read quite as well. So it's best to get all the stuff you want on a disc all in one go. i hope i've answered all the questions in one post here. At 11:45 AM 6/15/2005, you wrote: An MP3 CD is considered a data CD, as opposed to a music CD. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I thought that data CDs were silent. Is there a kind of data that has sound output? a - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you
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When you are in the burn dialog, there is a check box to check for data verfication. In older versions of Nero, the disc would eject, then the door would close and check the disc for errors. In the latest versions, you can tell if it is checking the disc by the intensity of the drive's fan. That is a very handy feature. Yes, it does take more time to complete, but you know if you have a coaster or not right away. - This message was written and composed on the Pac mate. -- Visit my blog at http://wil.wilanddenise.com -- -Original Message- From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 6/15/05 2:31:23 AM To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi Tim. I use the fastest speed, and it doesn't seem to have hurt my projects, because everything I've burned with Nero in a data CD project has sounded good. I don't think there were any errors. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more
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The rougher side should be on top, and the smoothe side should be on the bottom. - Original Message - From: Paul Hutson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:30 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please While we are on that thread, how can you tell which is the correct side to put the CD in to the drive so you know that you're recording. I am VERY new at this too. Or is there a smooth side and a rough side on the CD? Forgive me if this a dumb question but I'd like to save myself a little trouble. Thanks for your help. Paul - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 7:29 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel, I think most main stream brands should work well. You don't necessarily have to buy those formulated especially for music. Any old data cd will work if you're creating from the computer.. I've used, TDK, Memorex, Fuji, Imation, Sony and many others. You may want to decide if you want a spindle (without jewle cases) or a stack with jewel cases, either thin or regular. If you get a spindle, be aware that often the first and last disk are often a clear plastic one for protection of the disks and does not record. It can freak one out. The next question will be, how to do cd covers or track listings? If you get any good tips, let us all know. I haven't found a program with which I am comfortable yet. Clifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/12/2005 11:27:37 PM I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Daniel! I was thinking of a new CD. The business side is flush with the jewel case, the label side is showing. All the CDs I have ever seen have the ridge and it is on the business side. The other side may have a ridge also but it is nowhere as pronounced as the one on the business side. The ridge edge could be curved or square. Chirp|Chirp|Chirp: It's the Bat, Chirping Bat .Com ! New DEC-TALK USB: $650.00, www.chirpingbat.com/dectalkusb.shtml ! Gyration RF Wireless 100 foot range keyboard: $199.00, www.chirpingbat.com/rfkeyboard.shtml ! J-Say without Naturally Speaking: Standard $345.00, Professional $575.00, www.chirpingbat.com/j-say.shtml ! Window Eyes 5.0: $700, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/windoweyes.shtml ! Triple Talk: USB $450, PCI $350, includes delivery in the USA, add $30 outside, www.ChirpingBat.Com/tripletalk.shtml ! Sound Forge 8.0 with CD Architect 5.2: $250, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/soundforge.shtml ! We accept PayPal Visa, Mastercard, money orders, checks, wire transfers, etc. We ship Internationally. Click to convert our prices into your currency at: www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml Reach BA Software in the United States at: Phone: 1-518-572-6092 weekdays, 1-518-359-8538 other, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Skype name adirondackbat, WWW: www.ChirpingBat.Com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6
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What do you mean by a new CD? s - Original Message - From: Jerry Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:58 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel! I was thinking of a new CD. The business side is flush with the jewel case, the label side is showing. All the CDs I have ever seen have the ridge and it is on the business side. The other side may have a ridge also but it is nowhere as pronounced as the one on the business side. The ridge edge could be curved or square. Chirp|Chirp|Chirp: It's the Bat, Chirping Bat .Com ! New DEC-TALK USB: $650.00, www.chirpingbat.com/dectalkusb.shtml ! Gyration RF Wireless 100 foot range keyboard: $199.00, www.chirpingbat.com/rfkeyboard.shtml ! J-Say without Naturally Speaking: Standard $345.00, Professional $575.00, www.chirpingbat.com/j-say.shtml ! Window Eyes 5.0: $700, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/windoweyes.shtml ! Triple Talk: USB $450, PCI $350, includes delivery in the USA, add $30 outside, www.ChirpingBat.Com/tripletalk.shtml ! Sound Forge 8.0 with CD Architect 5.2: $250, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/soundforge.shtml ! We accept PayPal Visa, Mastercard, money orders, checks, wire transfers, etc. We ship Internationally. Click to convert our prices into your currency at: www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml Reach BA Software in the United States at: Phone: 1-518-572-6092 weekdays, 1-518-359-8538 other, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Skype name adirondackbat, WWW: www.ChirpingBat.Com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
I don't know about Nero, but with Easy CD Creater, you can choose the write speed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/14/2005 8:52:01 AM But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
You are, in some part, witnessing the advance of technology. Originally, cd writers couldn't burn at great speed. As burners developed higher abilities, media manufacturers developed media to keep up. However, there were all those older burners out there that couldn't take advantage of the higher speeds. So you wind up with a highly segmented marketplace trying to serve lots of differing needs. You can always burn at a slower speed than the maximum of your burner so long as the medium will support that speed. In fact, I think lots of folks might recommend burning, particularly music, at less than the higher speed to avoid errors. Given a 1x burn speed you won't spend more than 80 minutes waiting for your project to be done, but you can improve on that with your combination of burning write speed and cd speed capacity. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/14/2005 1:19:13 AM I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG
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Oh. I must look carefully at the settings and preferences. If I can find them. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:58 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I don't know about Nero, but with Easy CD Creater, you can choose the write speed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/14/2005 8:52:01 AM But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from
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Actually you can choose what speed the cd burns in Nero. You do this when you actually burn the cd. It's in the options. when in doubt, check the options because the setting you want is probably there. as for maximum burning speed, you'll just have to experiment a bit. The default setting is usually best though. At 08:52 AM 6/14/2005, you wrote: But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED
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A new cd is one that's never been used. that's usually how it goes? At 08:54 AM 6/14/2005, you wrote: What do you mean by a new CD? s - Original Message - From: Jerry Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:58 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel! I was thinking of a new CD. The business side is flush with the jewel case, the label side is showing. All the CDs I have ever seen have the ridge and it is on the business side. The other side may have a ridge also but it is nowhere as pronounced as the one on the business side. The ridge edge could be curved or square. Chirp|Chirp|Chirp: It's the Bat, Chirping Bat .Com ! New DEC-TALK USB: $650.00, www.chirpingbat.com/dectalkusb.shtml ! Gyration RF Wireless 100 foot range keyboard: $199.00, www.chirpingbat.com/rfkeyboard.shtml ! J-Say without Naturally Speaking: Standard $345.00, Professional $575.00, www.chirpingbat.com/j-say.shtml ! Window Eyes 5.0: $700, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/windoweyes.shtml ! Triple Talk: USB $450, PCI $350, includes delivery in the USA, add $30 outside, www.ChirpingBat.Com/tripletalk.shtml ! Sound Forge 8.0 with CD Architect 5.2: $250, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/soundforge.shtml ! We accept PayPal Visa, Mastercard, money orders, checks, wire transfers, etc. We ship Internationally. Click to convert our prices into your currency at: www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml Reach BA Software in the United States at: Phone: 1-518-572-6092 weekdays, 1-518-359-8538 other, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Skype name adirondackbat, WWW: www.ChirpingBat.Com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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With CDRWIn, you can choose the write speed, or you can have the program choose the maximum speed the media and writer will support and use that. Bruce -- Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Clifford Blackwell wrote: I don't know about Nero, but with Easy CD Creater, you can choose the write speed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/14/2005 8:52:01 AM But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com
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I would say if you're doing something and it works for you, keep doing it. Try not to over-think this. At 09:15 AM 6/14/2005, you wrote: Let's see. So you're saying that recording at 1x is a one-to-one ratio, same as straight cassette recording (not duping at double speed). So if the maximum speed of most new drives is 52x, is there some agreed-upon slower write speed that is considered just slow enough to be more prudent? The smart person uses 32x discs, or 48x discs, or something? Just looking for some idea of how people approach this. Or, if you just record at maximum speed, as I've done a number of times by now, with no perceptible glitches in the resulting music, then it's okay, and ought to generally be okay? it all sounds kind of abstract to me, so far... Thanks. - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:57 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please You are, in some part, witnessing the advance of technology. Originally, cd writers couldn't burn at great speed. As burners developed higher abilities, media manufacturers developed media to keep up. However, there were all those older burners out there that couldn't take advantage of the higher speeds. So you wind up with a highly segmented marketplace trying to serve lots of differing needs. You can always burn at a slower speed than the maximum of your burner so long as the medium will support that speed. In fact, I think lots of folks might recommend burning, particularly music, at less than the higher speed to avoid errors. Given a 1x burn speed you won't spend more than 80 minutes waiting for your project to be done, but you can improve on that with your combination of burning write speed and cd speed capacity. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/14/2005 1:19:13 AM I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help
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Chris, I'm asking for informed explanations to reasonable questions. If that isn't to your taste, fine. But I'm not having a problem Just seeking information. Thanks for understanding. - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:48 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I would say if you're doing something and it works for you, keep doing it. Try not to over-think this. At 09:15 AM 6/14/2005, you wrote: Let's see. So you're saying that recording at 1x is a one-to-one ratio, same as straight cassette recording (not duping at double speed). So if the maximum speed of most new drives is 52x, is there some agreed-upon slower write speed that is considered just slow enough to be more prudent? The smart person uses 32x discs, or 48x discs, or something? Just looking for some idea of how people approach this. Or, if you just record at maximum speed, as I've done a number of times by now, with no perceptible glitches in the resulting music, then it's okay, and ought to generally be okay? it all sounds kind of abstract to me, so far... Thanks. - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:57 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please You are, in some part, witnessing the advance of technology. Originally, cd writers couldn't burn at great speed. As burners developed higher abilities, media manufacturers developed media to keep up. However, there were all those older burners out there that couldn't take advantage of the higher speeds. So you wind up with a highly segmented marketplace trying to serve lots of differing needs. You can always burn at a slower speed than the maximum of your burner so long as the medium will support that speed. In fact, I think lots of folks might recommend burning, particularly music, at less than the higher speed to avoid errors. Given a 1x burn speed you won't spend more than 80 minutes waiting for your project to be done, but you can improve on that with your combination of burning write speed and cd speed capacity. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/14/2005 1:19:13 AM I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm
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I see. Well, I still have more exploring of the Nero interface to do. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:42 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Actually you can choose what speed the cd burns in Nero. You do this when you actually burn the cd. It's in the options. when in doubt, check the options because the setting you want is probably there. as for maximum burning speed, you'll just have to experiment a bit. The default setting is usually best though. At 08:52 AM 6/14/2005, you wrote: But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED
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I guess you don't see why I asked? The man said new CDs have this ridge. if you think that's a silly question, fine. But it still doesn't make sense to me. If it does to you, then explain why a blank CD I'm just taking out of its pack should have a ridge, but one that I've already used would not have a ridge, because it isn't new any more? Or does new bmean manufactured after a certain date, when the ridge was addedas an industry standard? Or..?honestly. I'm just asking for clarification so I can understand this feature and make use of it as a tactile guide. - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please A new cd is one that's never been used. that's usually how it goes? At 08:54 AM 6/14/2005, you wrote: What do you mean by a new CD? s - Original Message - From: Jerry Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:58 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel! I was thinking of a new CD. The business side is flush with the jewel case, the label side is showing. All the CDs I have ever seen have the ridge and it is on the business side. The other side may have a ridge also but it is nowhere as pronounced as the one on the business side. The ridge edge could be curved or square. Chirp|Chirp|Chirp: It's the Bat, Chirping Bat .Com ! New DEC-TALK USB: $650.00, www.chirpingbat.com/dectalkusb.shtml ! Gyration RF Wireless 100 foot range keyboard: $199.00, www.chirpingbat.com/rfkeyboard.shtml ! J-Say without Naturally Speaking: Standard $345.00, Professional $575.00, www.chirpingbat.com/j-say.shtml ! Window Eyes 5.0: $700, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/windoweyes.shtml ! Triple Talk: USB $450, PCI $350, includes delivery in the USA, add $30 outside, www.ChirpingBat.Com/tripletalk.shtml ! Sound Forge 8.0 with CD Architect 5.2: $250, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/soundforge.shtml ! We accept PayPal Visa, Mastercard, money orders, checks, wire transfers, etc. We ship Internationally. Click to convert our prices into your currency at: www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml Reach BA Software in the United States at: Phone: 1-518-572-6092 weekdays, 1-518-359-8538 other, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Skype name adirondackbat, WWW: www.ChirpingBat.Com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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As the subject line says, it's CD/Rs that I'm asking about, not CD/RWs. I wouldn't want to confuse the two if there happened to be some difference in the way things worked depending on which was being used. Thank you. From: Bruce Toews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:47 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please With CDRWIn, you can choose the write speed, or you can have the program choose the maximum speed the media and writer will support and use that. Bruce -- Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Clifford Blackwell wrote: I don't know about Nero, but with Easy CD Creater, you can choose the write speed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/14/2005 8:52:01 AM But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database
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Hi, I purchased a block of 50 cd's and the same quantity of plastic sleeves from PC-world and it approximated to 38p each. They also had the slimline cases at a reasonable cost. Ron - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC-Audio Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 5:27 AM Subject: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi, In nero 6.6 you get to choose the burning speed. One of the options is default, I think, but I know you can choose to burn slower than the default for the disc media. Rusty But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from
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Well with the faster write speeds, it doesn't take as long to get your project done. I've heard that for audio CD's, it's best to use the slower speeds, but it doesn't make as much of a difference with burning data CD's. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send
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There's a place in Nero where you can control the write speed. There's a menu that I see. My fastest speed is 48X, so I arrow down to the others until I get down to 1X. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
Well if your CD plays in your player after burning at the fastest speed, that'll be good for you. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 10:15 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Let's see. So you're saying that recording at 1x is a one-to-one ratio, same as straight cassette recording (not duping at double speed). So if the maximum speed of most new drives is 52x, is there some agreed-upon slower write speed that is considered just slow enough to be more prudent? The smart person uses 32x discs, or 48x discs, or something? Just looking for some idea of how people approach this. Or, if you just record at maximum speed, as I've done a number of times by now, with no perceptible glitches in the resulting music, then it's okay, and ought to generally be okay? it all sounds kind of abstract to me, so far... Thanks. - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:57 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please You are, in some part, witnessing the advance of technology. Originally, cd writers couldn't burn at great speed. As burners developed higher abilities, media manufacturers developed media to keep up. However, there were all those older burners out there that couldn't take advantage of the higher speeds. So you wind up with a highly segmented marketplace trying to serve lots of differing needs. You can always burn at a slower speed than the maximum of your burner so long as the medium will support that speed. In fact, I think lots of folks might recommend burning, particularly music, at less than the higher speed to avoid errors. Given a 1x burn speed you won't spend more than 80 minutes waiting for your project to be done, but you can improve on that with your combination of burning write speed and cd speed capacity. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/14/2005 1:19:13 AM I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
Thanks. I've got Nero v. 6, which may or may not have the same options in this regard. I'll check. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:16 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, In nero 6.6 you get to choose the burning speed. One of the options is default, I think, but I know you can choose to burn slower than the default for the disc media. Rusty But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
Sure you get to choose speed. Most people just take the default speed which would be as fast as your burner and media can go, but you can slow the burn down. Look through all of the options carefully before you start the burn in Nero. I haven't burned a cd in a while or I could tell you exactly where to look. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
Gary, you mean that you prefer to always record your CDs at the 1x speed? If so, why? thanks. - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:31 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please There's a place in Nero where you can control the write speed. There's a menu that I see. My fastest speed is 48X, so I arrow down to the others until I get down to 1X. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please But from what I understand about a program like Nero or the others I've tried, you don't get to choose the speed at which your CD gets written. I think it's just done at whatever speed the burn program defaults to and the CD drive is capable of, or something like that. Isn't this how it is? I'm sure I'm not understanding something. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
The ridge has been there and remains whether the disk has been used or not. I think the reference to new was directed at how a cd sits in a jewel case. An unopened or unused cd sits in the jewel case on a small spindle with the business side or ridged side down. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/14/2005 10:04:24 AM I guess you don't see why I asked? The man said new CDs have this ridge. if you think that's a silly question, fine. But it still doesn't make sense to me. If it does to you, then explain why a blank CD I'm just taking out of its pack should have a ridge, but one that I've already used would not have a ridge, because it isn't new any more? Or does new bmean manufactured after a certain date, when the ridge was addedas an industry standard? Or..?honestly. I'm just asking for clarification so I can understand this feature and make use of it as a tactile guide. - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please A new cd is one that's never been used. that's usually how it goes? At 08:54 AM 6/14/2005, you wrote: What do you mean by a new CD? s - Original Message - From: Jerry Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:58 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel! I was thinking of a new CD. The business side is flush with the jewel case, the label side is showing. All the CDs I have ever seen have the ridge and it is on the business side. The other side may have a ridge also but it is nowhere as pronounced as the one on the business side. The ridge edge could be curved or square. Chirp|Chirp|Chirp: It's the Bat, Chirping Bat .Com ! New DEC-TALK USB: $650.00, www.chirpingbat.com/dectalkusb.shtml ! Gyration RF Wireless 100 foot range keyboard: $199.00, www.chirpingbat.com/rfkeyboard.shtml ! J-Say without Naturally Speaking: Standard $345.00, Professional $575.00, www.chirpingbat.com/j-say.shtml ! Window Eyes 5.0: $700, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/windoweyes.shtml ! Triple Talk: USB $450, PCI $350, includes delivery in the USA, add $30 outside, www.ChirpingBat.Com/tripletalk.shtml ! Sound Forge 8.0 with CD Architect 5.2: $250, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/soundforge.shtml ! We accept PayPal Visa, Mastercard, money orders, checks, wire transfers, etc. We ship Internationally. Click to convert our prices into your currency at: www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml Reach BA Software in the United States at: Phone: 1-518-572-6092 weekdays, 1-518-359-8538 other, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Skype name adirondackbat, WWW: www.ChirpingBat.Com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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ah. I see. Got it. thanks. - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:54 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please The ridge has been there and remains whether the disk has been used or not. I think the reference to new was directed at how a cd sits in a jewel case. An unopened or unused cd sits in the jewel case on a small spindle with the business side or ridged side down. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/14/2005 10:04:24 AM I guess you don't see why I asked? The man said new CDs have this ridge. if you think that's a silly question, fine. But it still doesn't make sense to me. If it does to you, then explain why a blank CD I'm just taking out of its pack should have a ridge, but one that I've already used would not have a ridge, because it isn't new any more? Or does new bmean manufactured after a certain date, when the ridge was addedas an industry standard? Or..?honestly. I'm just asking for clarification so I can understand this feature and make use of it as a tactile guide. - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please A new cd is one that's never been used. that's usually how it goes? At 08:54 AM 6/14/2005, you wrote: What do you mean by a new CD? s - Original Message - From: Jerry Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:58 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel! I was thinking of a new CD. The business side is flush with the jewel case, the label side is showing. All the CDs I have ever seen have the ridge and it is on the business side. The other side may have a ridge also but it is nowhere as pronounced as the one on the business side. The ridge edge could be curved or square. Chirp|Chirp|Chirp: It's the Bat, Chirping Bat .Com ! New DEC-TALK USB: $650.00, www.chirpingbat.com/dectalkusb.shtml ! Gyration RF Wireless 100 foot range keyboard: $199.00, www.chirpingbat.com/rfkeyboard.shtml ! J-Say without Naturally Speaking: Standard $345.00, Professional $575.00, www.chirpingbat.com/j-say.shtml ! Window Eyes 5.0: $700, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/windoweyes.shtml ! Triple Talk: USB $450, PCI $350, includes delivery in the USA, add $30 outside, www.ChirpingBat.Com/tripletalk.shtml ! Sound Forge 8.0 with CD Architect 5.2: $250, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/soundforge.shtml ! We accept PayPal Visa, Mastercard, money orders, checks, wire transfers, etc. We ship Internationally. Click to convert our prices into your currency at: www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml Reach BA Software in the United States at: Phone: 1-518-572-6092 weekdays, 1-518-359-8538 other, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Skype name adirondackbat, WWW: www.ChirpingBat.Com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http
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Right, the ridge is there wether or not the disc is used or not. Usually like i said yesterday, the side you want to record on is facing straight up. so when you take a cd off the spindle or take it out of the jewel case if that's how they're package, do not turn the disc over to the other side. Just put your disc in the drive, prepare your cd to burn and just use the default setting. You'll be jusst fine. As far as some cd's having ridges, I suppose it all depends on the brand of cd itself. But like I said, burning the disc doesn't cause any actual physical change to the outside of the disc. So don't let the term burning trip you up. The burning process does change the cd because obviously it has to add data to it but you'd never be able to tel just by feeling it. The only way to know if a disc has been burned or not is to actually place it in the drive and check it out for yourself, or in the case of a cd you know is blank, then you know. At 10:54 AM 6/14/2005, you wrote: The ridge has been there and remains whether the disk has been used or not. I think the reference to new was directed at how a cd sits in a jewel case. An unopened or unused cd sits in the jewel case on a small spindle with the business side or ridged side down. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/14/2005 10:04:24 AM I guess you don't see why I asked? The man said new CDs have this ridge. if you think that's a silly question, fine. But it still doesn't make sense to me. If it does to you, then explain why a blank CD I'm just taking out of its pack should have a ridge, but one that I've already used would not have a ridge, because it isn't new any more? Or does new bmean manufactured after a certain date, when the ridge was addedas an industry standard? Or..?honestly. I'm just asking for clarification so I can understand this feature and make use of it as a tactile guide. - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:44 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please A new cd is one that's never been used. that's usually how it goes? At 08:54 AM 6/14/2005, you wrote: What do you mean by a new CD? s - Original Message - From: Jerry Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:58 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel! I was thinking of a new CD. The business side is flush with the jewel case, the label side is showing. All the CDs I have ever seen have the ridge and it is on the business side. The other side may have a ridge also but it is nowhere as pronounced as the one on the business side. The ridge edge could be curved or square. Chirp|Chirp|Chirp: It's the Bat, Chirping Bat .Com ! New DEC-TALK USB: $650.00, www.chirpingbat.com/dectalkusb.shtml ! Gyration RF Wireless 100 foot range keyboard: $199.00, www.chirpingbat.com/rfkeyboard.shtml ! J-Say without Naturally Speaking: Standard $345.00, Professional $575.00, www.chirpingbat.com/j-say.shtml ! Window Eyes 5.0: $700, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/windoweyes.shtml ! Triple Talk: USB $450, PCI $350, includes delivery in the USA, add $30 outside, www.ChirpingBat.Com/tripletalk.shtml ! Sound Forge 8.0 with CD Architect 5.2: $250, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/soundforge.shtml ! We accept PayPal Visa, Mastercard, money orders, checks, wire transfers, etc. We ship Internationally. Click to convert our prices into your currency at: www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml Reach BA Software in the United States at: Phone: 1-518-572-6092 weekdays, 1-518-359-8538 other, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Skype name adirondackbat, WWW: www.ChirpingBat.Com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005
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I've tried 16 rated at 24 and done ok, but 16 at 40 blew up fairly often. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from
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Hi, could you please explain what you mean? Are you saying, you used a blank CD that was rated for 16x and recorded it at a burn setting of 40x, and that turned out all right. But then you tried recording a 16x blank CD at 48x, and that didn't work in some way? If I have it backward, please correct me so that I can understand what you're describing. Thanks. to record - Original Message - From: Gary Petraccaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've tried 16 rated at 24 and done ok, but 16 at 40 blew up fairly often. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED
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Let me restate this. All CDs that I have ever seen have a ridge on the business side about an inch out from the hole in the center. The ridge has either a curved or square edge. The other side sometimes has a ridge also but it is no where near as pronounced as the one on the business side. I always feel for this ridge to determine how to put the CD into the CD player or recorder. Chirp|Chirp|Chirp: It's the Bat, Chirping Bat .Com ! New DEC-TALK USB: $650.00, www.chirpingbat.com/dectalkusb.shtml ! Gyration RF Wireless 100 foot range keyboard: $199.00, www.chirpingbat.com/rfkeyboard.shtml ! J-Say without Naturally Speaking: Standard $345.00, Professional $575.00, www.chirpingbat.com/j-say.shtml ! Window Eyes 5.0: $700, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/windoweyes.shtml ! Triple Talk: USB $450, PCI $350, includes delivery in the USA, add $30 outside, www.ChirpingBat.Com/tripletalk.shtml ! Sound Forge 8.0 with CD Architect 5.2: $250, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/soundforge.shtml ! We accept PayPal Visa, Mastercard, money orders, checks, wire transfers, etc. We ship Internationally. Click to convert our prices into your currency at: www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml Reach BA Software in the United States at: Phone: 1-518-572-6092 weekdays, 1-518-359-8538 other, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Skype name adirondackbat, WWW: www.ChirpingBat.Com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I think you have it backwards. Most of the cdr discs out today are rated for at least 16 x speed and up. But some of them are only able to go up to a certain burn speed so if you try to record with 2 fast of a speed for them, it doesn't work. It sounds to me like you've burned a few discs before and you have a setting that works for you. So, stick to what works best and keep it easy for yourself. At 01:47 PM 6/14/2005, you wrote: Hi, could you please explain what you mean? Are you saying, you used a blank CD that was rated for 16x and recorded it at a burn setting of 40x, and that turned out all right. But then you tried recording a 16x blank CD at 48x, and that didn't work in some way? If I have it backward, please correct me so that I can understand what you're describing. Thanks. to record - Original Message - From: Gary Petraccaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've tried 16 rated at 24 and done ok, but 16 at 40 blew up fairly often. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL
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Well, I give up. The truth is, I have a pretty new computer with a drive that I think is rated at 52x, and the first CDs a friend gave me to start learning to burn were 52x as well, and everything worked fine. I wasn't thinking about this stuff until I began to look online for blank CDs and saw that there are all these different ratings for them. - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 1:01 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think you have it backwards. Most of the cdr discs out today are rated for at least 16 x speed and up. But some of them are only able to go up to a certain burn speed so if you try to record with 2 fast of a speed for them, it doesn't work. It sounds to me like you've burned a few discs before and you have a setting that works for you. So, stick to what works best and keep it easy for yourself. At 01:47 PM 6/14/2005, you wrote: Hi, could you please explain what you mean? Are you saying, you used a blank CD that was rated for 16x and recorded it at a burn setting of 40x, and that turned out all right. But then you tried recording a 16x blank CD at 48x, and that didn't work in some way? If I have it backward, please correct me so that I can understand what you're describing. Thanks. to record - Original Message - From: Gary Petraccaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've tried 16 rated at 24 and done ok, but 16 at 40 blew up fairly often. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I
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Hi Ok Dan, in that case, if the first CDS you were given were rated at 52 x and your burner goes up to 52x, then this is quite simple. Get more discs that are rated at 52x. I personally like to use the 750 mb, 80 minute cds. You'll know if these are the right ones if you have someone sighted check for you on the label. Those are most definitely the ones you want. So, go buy those, burn at the default setting and sit back and relax. At 06:02 PM 6/14/2005, you wrote: Well, I give up. The truth is, I have a pretty new computer with a drive that I think is rated at 52x, and the first CDs a friend gave me to start learning to burn were 52x as well, and everything worked fine. I wasn't thinking about this stuff until I began to look online for blank CDs and saw that there are all these different ratings for them. - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 1:01 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think you have it backwards. Most of the cdr discs out today are rated for at least 16 x speed and up. But some of them are only able to go up to a certain burn speed so if you try to record with 2 fast of a speed for them, it doesn't work. It sounds to me like you've burned a few discs before and you have a setting that works for you. So, stick to what works best and keep it easy for yourself. At 01:47 PM 6/14/2005, you wrote: Hi, could you please explain what you mean? Are you saying, you used a blank CD that was rated for 16x and recorded it at a burn setting of 40x, and that turned out all right. But then you tried recording a 16x blank CD at 48x, and that didn't work in some way? If I have it backward, please correct me so that I can understand what you're describing. Thanks. to record - Original Message - From: Gary Petraccaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've tried 16 rated at 24 and done ok, but 16 at 40 blew up fairly often. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please If you want to burn a cd at 52x and your burner is rated at 52x than you need 52x rated cdr's although there is no reason you couldn't buy slower rated cdr's and burn slower. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've been cruising sites like amazon.com, best buy and others, and see that there's an enormous variety of blank cd/r products out there. I understand the importance of most of the specifications of a CD, such as its capacity. But what about the write speed? I'm pretty sure my CD/DVD drive is rated at a maximum wwrite speed of 52x, but does this mean I'm short-changing myself or inconveniencing myself in some way (or even burdening my system or burning program in some way) if I don't get discs of the fastest speed? Does it particularly matter? If I don't use 52x, is it as if I'll have to sit there all day waiting for one CD to finish being recorded? Why are there so *many* different write speeds? What were they all intended for? 1x, 4x, 16x, 32x, 48x, 52x-- what's all this about? Does anyone understand how there came to be so many types at this point, and what's best to buy? Thanks. *ROM - Original Message - From: Gary Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
I use Memorex blank CDR's. I like them. They work good for me. - Original Message - From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC-Audio Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:27 AM Subject: Blank CD/R recommendations, please I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Daniel, I think most main stream brands should work well. You don't necessarily have to buy those formulated especially for music. Any old data cd will work if you're creating from the computer.. I've used, TDK, Memorex, Fuji, Imation, Sony and many others. You may want to decide if you want a spindle (without jewle cases) or a stack with jewel cases, either thin or regular. If you get a spindle, be aware that often the first and last disk are often a clear plastic one for protection of the disks and does not record. It can freak one out. The next question will be, how to do cd covers or track listings? If you get any good tips, let us all know. I haven't found a program with which I am comfortable yet. Clifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/12/2005 11:27:37 PM I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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You only need to buy those if you have a stand alone recorder. The extra cost is for the RIA. It has nothing to do with quality. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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While we are on that thread, how can you tell which is the correct side to put the CD in to the drive so you know that you're recording. I am VERY new at this too. Or is there a smooth side and a rough side on the CD? Forgive me if this a dumb question but I'd like to save myself a little trouble. Thanks for your help. Paul - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 7:29 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel, I think most main stream brands should work well. You don't necessarily have to buy those formulated especially for music. Any old data cd will work if you're creating from the computer.. I've used, TDK, Memorex, Fuji, Imation, Sony and many others. You may want to decide if you want a spindle (without jewle cases) or a stack with jewel cases, either thin or regular. If you get a spindle, be aware that often the first and last disk are often a clear plastic one for protection of the disks and does not record. It can freak one out. The next question will be, how to do cd covers or track listings? If you get any good tips, let us all know. I haven't found a program with which I am comfortable yet. Clifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/12/2005 11:27:37 PM I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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what is the ria tim. web site www.rellek.com/stevegomes phone 720-747-4990 - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:28 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please You only need to buy those if you have a stand alone recorder. The extra cost is for the RIA. It has nothing to do with quality. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
Just use any generic CDs, and they'll work just fine. No reason by buy music only CDs. Thanks, Jed -Original Message- From: Tim Grady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:29 PM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please You only need to buy those if you have a stand alone recorder. The extra cost is for the RIA. It has nothing to do with quality. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
well Paul there are lines or some sort of raised lines on the side that is suppose to be up. You don't want to be touching the smooth side because the oil from your skin will dirty the recording side. So try to touch the smooth side as little as possible with clean hands. web site www.rellek.com/stevegomes phone 720-747-4990 - Original Message - From: Paul Hutson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:30 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please While we are on that thread, how can you tell which is the correct side to put the CD in to the drive so you know that you're recording. I am VERY new at this too. Or is there a smooth side and a rough side on the CD? Forgive me if this a dumb question but I'd like to save myself a little trouble. Thanks for your help. Paul - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 7:29 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel, I think most main stream brands should work well. You don't necessarily have to buy those formulated especially for music. Any old data cd will work if you're creating from the computer.. I've used, TDK, Memorex, Fuji, Imation, Sony and many others. You may want to decide if you want a spindle (without jewle cases) or a stack with jewel cases, either thin or regular. If you get a spindle, be aware that often the first and last disk are often a clear plastic one for protection of the disks and does not record. It can freak one out. The next question will be, how to do cd covers or track listings? If you get any good tips, let us all know. I haven't found a program with which I am comfortable yet. Clifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/12/2005 11:27:37 PM I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sorry, but I don't know what RIA stands for. Please explain. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 9:28 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please cost is for the RIA. It has nothing to do with quality. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
RIAA is the Recording Industry Association of America. They are the guardians of copywrite. The extra cost of music cd's for stand alone recorders goes to RIAA for anticipated copywrite payments. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/13/2005 11:40:56 AM Sorry, but I don't know what RIA stands for. Please explain. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 9:28 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please cost is for the RIA. It has nothing to do with quality. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
For most cd's, there is a slightly raised ring around the center hole about an inch or less from the center. The side with that ridge goes down. In any case, one should be careful not to get fingerprints or to smudge the surface of the disk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/13/2005 11:30:12 AM While we are on that thread, how can you tell which is the correct side to put the CD in to the drive so you know that you're recording. I am VERY new at this too. Or is there a smooth side and a rough side on the CD? Forgive me if this a dumb question but I'd like to save myself a little trouble. Thanks for your help. Paul - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 7:29 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel, I think most main stream brands should work well. You don't necessarily have to buy those formulated especially for music. Any old data cd will work if you're creating from the computer.. I've used, TDK, Memorex, Fuji, Imation, Sony and many others. You may want to decide if you want a spindle (without jewle cases) or a stack with jewel cases, either thin or regular. If you get a spindle, be aware that often the first and last disk are often a clear plastic one for protection of the disks and does not record. It can freak one out. The next question will be, how to do cd covers or track listings? If you get any good tips, let us all know. I haven't found a program with which I am comfortable yet. Clifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/12/2005 11:27:37 PM I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
Thanks to everyone who's responding to this question of mine. Please understand that I didn't think I needed to buy a type of CD that was advertised as being for music specifically. I had done some basic homework in order to understand disc capacity and write speed, and really just wanted to hear people's brand preferences, if any. Not surprised that a number of brands, some of them long familiar as makers of audiotape (such as Maxell, TDK, etc.) as well as some products whose names I'd never heard (Ination, for example) were all good. I just didn't know if there were some really inferior things out there, as once was the case with blank audiocassette tape. Again, thanks to all, and waiting to hear what RIA means and what it has to do with stand-alone CD recording devices. Daniel just wanted to - Original Message - From: Jed Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'PC audio discussion list. ' Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 9:46 AM Subject: RE: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Just use any generic CDs, and they'll work just fine. No reason by buy music only CDs. Thanks, Jed -Original Message- From: Tim Grady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:29 PM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please You only need to buy those if you have a stand alone recorder. The extra cost is for the RIA. It has nothing to do with quality. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
Thanks one and all for your help. Now, I should have a bunch of FUN burning CD's. Everybody have a good one. Paul - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please For most cd's, there is a slightly raised ring around the center hole about an inch or less from the center. The side with that ridge goes down. In any case, one should be careful not to get fingerprints or to smudge the surface of the disk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/13/2005 11:30:12 AM While we are on that thread, how can you tell which is the correct side to put the CD in to the drive so you know that you're recording. I am VERY new at this too. Or is there a smooth side and a rough side on the CD? Forgive me if this a dumb question but I'd like to save myself a little trouble. Thanks for your help. Paul - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 7:29 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel, I think most main stream brands should work well. You don't necessarily have to buy those formulated especially for music. Any old data cd will work if you're creating from the computer.. I've used, TDK, Memorex, Fuji, Imation, Sony and many others. You may want to decide if you want a spindle (without jewle cases) or a stack with jewel cases, either thin or regular. If you get a spindle, be aware that often the first and last disk are often a clear plastic one for protection of the disks and does not record. It can freak one out. The next question will be, how to do cd covers or track listings? If you get any good tips, let us all know. I haven't found a program with which I am comfortable yet. Clifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/12/2005 11:27:37 PM I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Ah. I knew what RIA stood for, but without the explanation didn't assume that the initials necessarily referred to it in this context. Now I see. So to speak. - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 9:59 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please RIAA is the Recording Industry Association of America. They are the guardians of copywrite. The extra cost of music cd's for stand alone recorders goes to RIAA for anticipated copywrite payments. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/13/2005 11:40:56 AM Sorry, but I don't know what RIA stands for. Please explain. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 9:28 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please cost is for the RIA. It has nothing to do with quality. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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costco has blank cds and I bet sam's club does too. web site www.rellek.com/stevegomes phone 720-747-4990 - Original Message - From: Paul Hutson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:11 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Thanks one and all for your help. Now, I should have a bunch of FUN burning CD's. Everybody have a good one. Paul - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please For most cd's, there is a slightly raised ring around the center hole about an inch or less from the center. The side with that ridge goes down. In any case, one should be careful not to get fingerprints or to smudge the surface of the disk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/13/2005 11:30:12 AM While we are on that thread, how can you tell which is the correct side to put the CD in to the drive so you know that you're recording. I am VERY new at this too. Or is there a smooth side and a rough side on the CD? Forgive me if this a dumb question but I'd like to save myself a little trouble. Thanks for your help. Paul - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 7:29 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel, I think most main stream brands should work well. You don't necessarily have to buy those formulated especially for music. Any old data cd will work if you're creating from the computer.. I've used, TDK, Memorex, Fuji, Imation, Sony and many others. You may want to decide if you want a spindle (without jewle cases) or a stack with jewel cases, either thin or regular. If you get a spindle, be aware that often the first and last disk are often a clear plastic one for protection of the disks and does not record. It can freak one out. The next question will be, how to do cd covers or track listings? If you get any good tips, let us all know. I haven't found a program with which I am comfortable yet. Clifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/12/2005 11:27:37 PM I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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generally the cd's will be on the side you want to record on. so when you remove it from the spindle or package or whatever you buy them in, do not turn them over to the other side or you'll have nothing but problems. So, just place them in the drive on the side they're on. treat them as you would any other cd. At 12:01 PM 6/13/2005, you wrote: For most cd's, there is a slightly raised ring around the center hole about an inch or less from the center. The side with that ridge goes down. In any case, one should be careful not to get fingerprints or to smudge the surface of the disk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/13/2005 11:30:12 AM While we are on that thread, how can you tell which is the correct side to put the CD in to the drive so you know that you're recording. I am VERY new at this too. Or is there a smooth side and a rough side on the CD? Forgive me if this a dumb question but I'd like to save myself a little trouble. Thanks for your help. Paul - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 7:29 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel, I think most main stream brands should work well. You don't necessarily have to buy those formulated especially for music. Any old data cd will work if you're creating from the computer.. I've used, TDK, Memorex, Fuji, Imation, Sony and many others. You may want to decide if you want a spindle (without jewle cases) or a stack with jewel cases, either thin or regular. If you get a spindle, be aware that often the first and last disk are often a clear plastic one for protection of the disks and does not record. It can freak one out. The next question will be, how to do cd covers or track listings? If you get any good tips, let us all know. I haven't found a program with which I am comfortable yet. Clifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/12/2005 11:27:37 PM I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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So you mean the ridge is on the recording side, and the label side is smooth at that same point? - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:01 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please For most cd's, there is a slightly raised ring around the center hole about an inch or less from the center. The side with that ridge goes down. In any case, one should be careful not to get fingerprints or to smudge the surface of the disk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/13/2005 11:30:12 AM While we are on that thread, how can you tell which is the correct side to put the CD in to the drive so you know that you're recording. I am VERY new at this too. Or is there a smooth side and a rough side on the CD? Forgive me if this a dumb question but I'd like to save myself a little trouble. Thanks for your help. Paul - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 7:29 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel, I think most main stream brands should work well. You don't necessarily have to buy those formulated especially for music. Any old data cd will work if you're creating from the computer.. I've used, TDK, Memorex, Fuji, Imation, Sony and many others. You may want to decide if you want a spindle (without jewle cases) or a stack with jewel cases, either thin or regular. If you get a spindle, be aware that often the first and last disk are often a clear plastic one for protection of the disks and does not record. It can freak one out. The next question will be, how to do cd covers or track listings? If you get any good tips, let us all know. I haven't found a program with which I am comfortable yet. Clifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/12/2005 11:27:37 PM I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The business side of a CD is the side that is flush with the jewel case. If you hold the CD in your hand by the edge then with the index finger of the other hand you reach to the center of the disk and drag your finger slowly towards the edge about an inch an a half or so from the center you may or may not encounter a smooth or sharp ridge. If you feel this ridge then this is the business side. Chirp|Chirp|Chirp: It's the Bat, Chirping Bat .Com ! New DEC-TALK USB: $650.00, www.chirpingbat.com/dectalkusb.shtml ! Gyration RF Wireless 100 foot range keyboard: $199.00, www.chirpingbat.com/rfkeyboard.shtml ! J-Say without Naturally Speaking: Standard $345.00, Professional $575.00, www.chirpingbat.com/j-say.shtml ! Window Eyes 5.0: $700, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/windoweyes.shtml ! Triple Talk: USB $450, PCI $350, includes delivery in the USA, add $30 outside, www.ChirpingBat.Com/tripletalk.shtml ! Sound Forge 8.0 with CD Architect 5.2: $250, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/soundforge.shtml ! We accept PayPal Visa, Mastercard, money orders, checks, wire transfers, etc. We ship Internationally. Click to convert our prices into your currency at: www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml Reach BA Software in the United States at: Phone: 1-518-572-6092 weekdays, 1-518-359-8538 other, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Skype name adirondackbat, WWW: www.ChirpingBat.Com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I don't know if this message was in response to me, particularly, but I just wanted to say that how a CD sits in a jewel box depends on how someone sticks it in there, except when you buy a new music CD and open it for the first time, where of course the recorded side is down and the label side is up. I was hoping to add the textural distinction to my low vision method of holding the disc under a light and distinguishing the matte-finish side (or label side, in the case of a commercial CD) from the shiny side, which is the encoded side. But you're saying that not all CDs have a bit of a ridge on the encoding side? I guess that's not necessarily going to help me do it without my eyes, then. If I'm wrong, please explain. But it sounds as if you're saying a CD doesn't necessarily have that ridge, only sometimes. Daniel - Original Message - From: Jerry Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 1:27 PM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please The business side of a CD is the side that is flush with the jewel case. If you hold the CD in your hand by the edge then with the index finger of the other hand you reach to the center of the disk and drag your finger slowly towards the edge about an inch an a half or so from the center you may or may not encounter a smooth or sharp ridge. If you feel this ridge then this is the business side. Chirp|Chirp|Chirp: It's the Bat, Chirping Bat .Com ! New DEC-TALK USB: $650.00, www.chirpingbat.com/dectalkusb.shtml ! Gyration RF Wireless 100 foot range keyboard: $199.00, www.chirpingbat.com/rfkeyboard.shtml ! J-Say without Naturally Speaking: Standard $345.00, Professional $575.00, www.chirpingbat.com/j-say.shtml ! Window Eyes 5.0: $700, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/windoweyes.shtml ! Triple Talk: USB $450, PCI $350, includes delivery in the USA, add $30 outside, www.ChirpingBat.Com/tripletalk.shtml ! Sound Forge 8.0 with CD Architect 5.2: $250, includes delivery in the USA, www.ChirpingBat.Com/soundforge.shtml ! We accept PayPal Visa, Mastercard, money orders, checks, wire transfers, etc. We ship Internationally. Click to convert our prices into your currency at: www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml Reach BA Software in the United States at: Phone: 1-518-572-6092 weekdays, 1-518-359-8538 other, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Skype name adirondackbat, WWW: www.ChirpingBat.Com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi, Usually, there is a feelable ring around the center hole on the face down side. I say most times because every now and then I find a store bought cd with no souge ridge. Never seen a cd rom without one, though. Incidentally, writeable vidio discs have a ridge on both sides. Rusty At 12:30 PM 6/13/2005, Paul Hutson spake thusly:- While we are on that thread, how can you tell which is the correct side to put the CD in to the drive so you know that you're recording. I am VERY new at this too. Or is there a smooth side and a rough side on the CD? Forgive me if this a dumb question but I'd like to save myself a little trouble. Thanks for your help. Paul - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 7:29 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Daniel, I think most main stream brands should work well. You don't necessarily have to buy those formulated especially for music. Any old data cd will work if you're creating from the computer.. I've used, TDK, Memorex, Fuji, Imation, Sony and many others. You may want to decide if you want a spindle (without jewle cases) or a stack with jewel cases, either thin or regular. If you get a spindle, be aware that often the first and last disk are often a clear plastic one for protection of the disks and does not record. It can freak one out. The next question will be, how to do cd covers or track listings? If you get any good tips, let us all know. I haven't found a program with which I am comfortable yet. Clifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/12/2005 11:27:37 PM I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please
I think I got a spindle of 50 CD's. I'm not sure exactly how many of those are left. I guess you can probably get around 50 for between $10 and $20 U.S. - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Blank CD/R recommendations, please Hi, I just go to Walmart and buy memorex or max l or whatever name brand is on sale. I buy them in a spindle of fifty, generally, though sometimes a spindle of 100 is really cheap. I have found that so-called music cd's are no better than straight write once read many type cd's, though they generally cost a bit more. Money for r i a a, I suppose. Hope this helps. Rusty At 12:27 AM 6/13/2005, Yardbird spake thusly:- I've begun creating CDs for friends by both copying my own music CDS and also by creating compilations from music files on my hard drive. While learning, I've used a few blank CD/Rs graciously donated by a friend. Now I'd like to get myself a modest supply to keep on hand, and I'd love to hear recommendations. I just did a search on Amazon and realize that there are a lot of brands to choose from, in different quantities, with or without jewel boxes. It's a bit overwhelming. I just want to find something like a 25-pack of good quality discs that I can depend on for quality and durability. Also, I'd like to know where to find those slim-line jewel boxes that most people I I know use for CDs they make themselves. Here's the model of the CD-ROM drive/recorder in my Dell PC. I'm under the impression that the write speed is 52x, but if anyone knows differently, please say. thanks a lot. Here's my recorder model, courtesy of Belarc Advisor: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F [CD-ROM drive] Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. (Helen Keller) Check out my web site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
