I am presently engaged in burning my entire LP collection to CD. Someone was asking if there is a good application for ripping LPs. I used to use Toast 4.1? and SpinDoctor but now I favor SoundJam and then I process the AIFF files with SpinDoctor. I started doing this in a BassAckward way because occaisionally I would process a AIFF and all the data would be lost. I'm not sure what caused this, but I was doing it on a ATA100 Master/Slave 40GB WD and eventually the slave drive died. I had a lot of weird errors before the failure of the drive pertaining to Filesaver like corupted directory blocks.
To avoid having SpinDoctor destroy a huge AIFF file and having to rerecord an album I used SoundJam to record an MP3 of the whole album, then used SoundJam again to convert it to AIFF format and manipulted the AIFF file with SpinDoctor and then naturally sent it to Toast with the disk at once feature. This all sounds like a big pain, but at least it ensured not losing the data in the AIFF file with the MP3 lying in reserve. I have a Ricoh 2x burner, a MP 6200S that works. I discovered that many of the music CDs couldn't be read by my 24x stock apple drive and a lot of them couldn't be read by the Ricoh even though it burned them. I broke down and got a TDK Velocd 40/12/48. This thing doesn't have any trouble reading anything I've burned, but it won't boot anything holding down the "C" key and it won't boot anything if you select it with Startup Disk. I haven't tried to burn anything. I don't believe the 50pin SCSI can keep up with this thing. I'm waiting for WD to return my slave drive so I can go back to slave driving. I lost over 80 albums when this thing croaked. Sincerely, Mark Murphy -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
