From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V3 #317 Reply-To: support-system@smoe.org Sender: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk support-system-digest Friday, November 24 2000 Volume 03 : Number 317 Today's Subjects: ----------------- CD-R/RW - long post...sorry! ["Michael Honaker" ] turkey ["DarkSide oftheMoon" ] badly drawn boy ["Wendy Bryant" ] Nina Gordon [Dan ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 02:27:50 -0800 From: "Michael Honaker" Subject: CD-R/RW - long post...sorry! Just to throw my two cents in here (a few days late)... I agree with staying away from the cheapest drives. The more expensive, on the other hand, are better in some respect, but then theres the possibility that one might spend $300, when theres one out there just as good if not better for half that price. Also what might expand the price is software that comes with it. More times than not, you're paying for the drive plus the software, which can run up the price a bit. A lot of drives come with Adaptec Easy CD Creator and DirectCD. DirectCD I find useless, unless you want to slowly add data to the discs. EasyCD creator is an ok program, if you can get past the horribly strange animated CDGuide. But it's easy to use and it's laid out well, except for the Jewel Case editor, but thats another story. When it comes to the problems with certain ones, Philips does not have a perfect track record. Is there any company that has a perfect record? I don't know. I own a Philips Internal CDRW800, which has never given me problems resulting from something within the drive. I use it just about every other day, and nothing has went wrong. I've only used drives made my Philips and Hewlett Packard. I, by my own choice stay away from the HP CDRW's. To me, the ones I've used anyway, seem to have fits of some sort. Sometimes they read, sometimes they don't... Sometimes they write and sometimes they lock your system. Of course, this also could be due to the system itself. Ones I've installed had to have the DMA disabled before they would burn correctly. Besides all that, HP has a bunch of their software that they want you to install to configure it. That takes too much time. I'd rather set the jumpers on the drive to slave, plug it up and let it be. Software configurators seem to screw up for me for some reason. Over the past 12 years dealing with CDRom and CDRW drives, plus all the other components of a system, I've learned that the system doesn't fail on the user, the user fails on the system. It's all a matter of how you treat the components. If you run a CDRW all freaking day, its gonna get hot and give you problems even if the box actually did say "You can run it all freaking day!" So anything can fail (even the expensive ones with a good track record) if one pushes them repeatedly. Speaking of pushing them, some might disagree but I'd stay away from ripping audio with a CDRW. It's much more reliable to rip audio from your CDRom to your hard drive, then burn it with the CDRW. Not only that, but I've found that using CDrom discs or audio cds in a CDRW will do nothing but give you problems... dust and oil deposits on the CDRW lens. Theres nothing worse than burning a disc and hearing crackling noises because the drive has dirt in it, or the disc not burning all the way through because of dirt... except for maybe... 2 second gaps...... About the 2 second gaps... Those really are horrible. If you don't want 2 second gaps, be sure prior to burning a disc that you have it set on "Disc At Once" instead of "Track At Once". Especially if you're burning a live recording... Theres nothing worse than listening to a live recording and hearing the audience noise stop at the end of a track and bluntly pick up again 2 seconds later. One last thought, if you're burning audio, you might want to get some software for editing the wav files if you need to. Like say you rip an audio track and for some reason your system had a spasm and put a big old pop at the beginning of the track... as long as it comes before the audio, you can edit it out if you have the software. I use CoolEdit Pro, and thats all I'll use. I tried other ones, but this one does the trick. I'm sure theres expensive stuff out there that are 100 times better at editing, but I shall not want for what I can't pay for. So thats my thoughts...sorry if they're not fully understandable, i'm very tired. so if i mistyped or mis thought anything, i apologize. oh yeah - someone asked about Cursed...actually I think they typed Charmed but oh well. Charmed is the Shannon Doherty show on the WB, Cursed is the show that Liz did the song for. mp3 is at http://suprnova.lunamorena.net under the 'other audio' section. - -Michael - ----------------------- "I know your answer already..." -Sinead O'Connor - ----------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:32:22 From: "DarkSide oftheMoon" Subject: turkey to all you turkeys out there.. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! DarkSide oftheMoon _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 07:29:33 -0600 From: "Wendy Bryant" Subject: badly drawn boy i bought badly drawn boy and didn't really like it save maybe 2 tracks. and THEN, i hear badly drawn boy on a GAP commerical. ok, i loathe the gap! the stand for everything i hate about america and more. sweatshops, conformity, deforresting..... icky! magical peace- i'll go back to being a wallflower now. wendy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:20:26 -0500 From: Dan Subject: Nina Gordon Hey folks.. Just to let everyone know - who is interested or in the area - I'm gonna be going to see NINA GORDON this Sunday at The Shelter in Detroit. Tickets are 15 bux each - doors at 6pm. Steve - are you gonna go?? I really hope so. I'm dragging wayne out yet again :) :) Hope to see you there :) I'll post a cool review of the show to the digest, and hopefully i can snap a few pics to have scanned for any post-Veruca Nina fans :) (I'm a HARD Louise follower myself...but - Nina's still cool...) laters.. Dan. %&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&% "There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. " -Oscar Wilde. ***************^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V3 #317 ************************************