Burning CDs

I am more of a in betweener than the choices you made available. I am one who prefers to see cds the way they were meant to be seen...bought from the store with their original artwork.....but.....

sometimes it doesn't hurt when a friend nudges you toward a band you may have never considered.

I dont burn albums myself, although I've had plenty burnt for me by friends.

Someone burnt an album for me recently so I could get a taste for the artists music. If I like what I hear, I'm likely to go out and buy all the artists work anyway, so I dont beat myself up over it.

In fact I spend huge amounts of money on CD's and vinyl anway, so I like to think it all balances out in the end..

I burn lots of CD-R's.I also have over 500 bought CDs and I feel I have contributed sufficient funds to the greedy record companies.

I have a HiFi CD recorder as well as my PC. The direct copies I make on my HIFI CD Recorder are virtually indistinguishable sonically from the originals and I can perceive the difference between these copies and those made on a PC.

Many of the CD's I burn now are taken directly from MP3s and converted to CD playable format (wav compatible) using Nero. The quality is obviously not as good as a standard CD ( of course most of my friends cannot hear any difference) but is barely "acceptable"  when played on a revealing seperates HiFi system. Converting MP3's is very useful for making compilation CD's to play on my car's CD player (although I had an MP3 capable player in my last car).I use printable CDR's(£15 for 100 Ritek) in my PC and can print the label directly on to the CD using an Epson R200 printer (@£80, though I got it in a PC world sale for £69.99)which has an insert for printing CDs- the final result looks really cool and many people cant distinguish them from an original! I very rarely burn full albums these days, usually compilation "best ofs" for friends I want to convert to the prog cause.

A big thank you to Leo (beau heem) BTW !!!

and Useful..........when you gonna open the floodgates again?

Edited by Reed Lover

I f the quality of the copy is nigh on perfect why prefer the original? The music is more important than the packaging. The packaging is a marketing tool. You can get the lyrics off the bands website or fansite.

selling_echoes wrote: I seem to feel some sort of proudness, when an album is bought, and MINE. Of course, the money issue comes up quite a bit.

That's exactly where I stand.

I meant I was justifying why I don't do copies, just using very awkward phrasing.

Also I can't ever get them to look perfect, because I have a cheap printer, and some booklets have a lot of pages. But as I said originally, that's not the real reason I buy originals, it's just because I want to.

Oh, I'll copy albums I own for convenience, but at the minute there's not really an issue: I can't drive so I don't need casettes for the car; The only portable music player I have at the minute is a gig mp3 one, perhaps when I buy a discman I'll copy some vinyl onto CD, and perhaps when I start driving I'll copy some vinyl and CD onto tape. NB I have only a PC based CD writer, and no tape recorder of my own, so I might run into some difficulties . One of my life's aims is to drive near a chavvy boy racer blasting some Schoenberg at full volume*, or something equally brutal. Don't ask me why, it's just a dream . The closet I've come so far is when my brother was driving and we turned Wagner right up; it was a proud moment.




*(the chav isn't blasting Schoenberg; I am)


Edited by goose

Metropolis wrote: Reed Lover wrote: I burn lots of CD-R's.I also have over 500 bought CDs and I feel I have contributed sufficient funds to the greedy record companies. How'd a 16 yr old afford all that? I'm so poor

I'm not called Don Deluego either.......

Nor Greenland 

So I guess all that "info" in his profile is bull then?