OFF: Re: Advice wanted: PC CD Writers.

[Paul Mather]

On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, sprawl wrote:

=> You are obviously better versed in cd writing than I.  And I found your
=> input useful.  But for whatever reason this one works. I can reboot
=> between sessions, and my Phillips ESP25 discman sees all tracks.  One
=> thing I did notice, was that  the software writes HUGE tempfiles that
=> you cannot delete until you finalise the cd.  I mean, I can DO it, but
=> not without "breaking the rules." =)
=>
=> Anyway, I am very happy with the device, and tho' I cannot offer any
=> comparison, I say it is a great value for the $$.
=>
=> BTW- It's internal IDE, too!

Sounds like you have a winner, there.  And, you bring up a good point in
that you need a reasonable amount of spare disc space when mastering
CDs.  I'd bank on about ~700MB for a full CD made from WAV files, and
then more, depending upon how your software writes the disc.  (Rule of
thumb is ~10MB/minute of CD audio.)  Fortunately, the price of storage
is tumbling nowadays, and so 1GB+ drives are going for a song.

Cheers,

Paul.

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e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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