Re: [tuning] CD burners

on 1/14/01 12:48 AM, tuning@egroups.com at tuning@egroups.com wrote:

> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:53:33 -0800
> From: "Todd Wilcox" <twilcox@patriot.net>
> Subject: RE: Re: Open offer to JL and PE, "in the name of microtonality"
>
> In addition, I don't
> believe any CD burners available yet allow pauses in the middle of burning,
> at least not without leaving audible artifacts, which is another big
> liability in terms of recording.

I've seen a few CD burners advertised, that have been recently introduced on
the market, that will burn one piece at a time, sequentially. I think one
might be the HHB, but I'm not sure.

I have the Alesis Masterlink, it records onto an internal harddrive, then
you make a playlist and burn that. Thus, you can record one piece at a time,
even out of order, then put it all together.

> To me, CD-R is ideal for archiving, since it's not magnetic, and therefore
> will not degrade while simply sitting on a shelf. Of course, the format is a
> bit young to know how long its shelf life REALLY is, but I have printed CDs
> from about 15 years ago that are still fine, whereas I haven't seen a floppy
> disk more than about six years old that still works.

These days, I've started to archive my DATs onto CD, one of the many reasons
I bought the CD burner. Conversely, I've also thought of making DAT copies
of important things that I've recorded onto the CD burner. Regardless of
what anyone says about life span of formats, I don't trust any of them
further than I can throw them, as the saying goes.

Seth

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