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Greg Clow
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Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:42:56 -0500
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Re: [idm] Re: [idm-m] OT : minidisc advice
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At 11:46 AM 30/01/02, Adam Piontek wrote:
quoted 4 lines The thing is, if you have a ton of music (or in my>The thing is, if you have a ton of music (or in my >case, all of my music) in MP3 format, it's much more >convenient to burn 3 or 4 CD-RW discs at 8x than to >sit around recording audio to your MD player.
I agree that getting a CD burner/writer as opposed to a MD for recording of MP3s makes a lot of sense now. But when I got my MD recorder about 2.5 years ago, CD burners were a lot more expensive, and CD-RW wasn't very common at all (if it even existed in the commerical market, I can't remember for sure). So MD was my preferred option at the time. Plus a had a copy of that Gescom MD that I really wanted to listen to. :) I actually still don't own a CD burner/writer, although my wife and I are considering getting one soon. Not really for music (although it may come in handy for that at some point), but mainly for backing up data, etc. I had a big scare a couple of weeks ago with the boot sector on my hard drive got fried - made extra scary by the fact that I work from home, so I thought I'd lost all of my personal AND work data in one fell swoop. Thankfully, the tech guys at my office were able to restore the boot sector with no data loss, but it was a little too close for comfort. So we'll probably pick up an external burner/writer that will allow us to back up data from both my wife's computer and mine. Greg :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Greg Clow ::: greg@stainedproductions.com ::::::::: concert & event promotions ::: http://www.stainedproductions.com :::::: electronic music radio & reviews ::: http://www.feedbackmonitor.com ::: electronic/experimental record label ::: http://www.pieheadrecords.com ::::::::: 158 Close Ave. 2nd Floor ::: Toronto, Ontario M6K 2V5 ::: Canada --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org