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Burning CD's is a HUGE HASSLE
What ever happened to the good old days where all that was needed was
a simple floppy disk, and files could be dragged and dropped from Windows, or use the "copy command" from dos. After not even owning a CD player for years, I just bought an external Iomega ZipCD player and recorder, connected to my USB port. After a little hassle getting the drivers installed, it works fine, and I was able to install a few CD's that have been sitting on the shelf for the last several years. On the other hand, I have never burned a CD or DVD or anything. This drive came with Iomega Hot Burn Pro. I have played with it, but have not yet purchased any blanks. One thing I am not sure whether to get the Write once or Multi-write ones. Worse yet, which are which. In the store they had R and RW. What do these letters mean? I thought that R meant READ and RW meant READ-WRITE. But what good is a blank CD that is only readable? The Walmart clerk did not know what I was talking about (typical Walmart idiot), so I left the store not buying any discs because I did not know what to buy. Then, when I finally do get the disks, what do I do next? The software has the following options to select. Music Disc Data Disc MP3/WMA Disc Disc Copy CD Label MP3's are music, so why is there both a "music disc" and a "MP3/WMA" option? I am sure the Data Disc is for backups and saving files off the hard drive. And I know that CD Label makes labels (which my laser printer would unlikely be able to make. Then I started to select a bunch of MP3 files on my harddrive and it told me that they will not all fit. Well, DUH..... Why does it not tell me where to stop, assuming I will need several discs? Do I need to manually copy the files to a special directory until I know I have no more than 700 megs (or is it 650, since several websites do not agree and list 650 on some and 700 on other sites for the max capacity). Then it says that MP3's can not be played on a standard CD player on a stereo. What's the point of putting them on a CD if they wont play (other than as a backup). On to the Data Disc. Am I going to have to manually select files till I reach the 650 or 700 meg limit? I dont see any option to have it just tell me to insert another disc when one is full. I spent half a day reading help files and websites, and this seems to be the most complicated thing any computer can do. Like I said, what ever happened to the good old days of floppies. Just copy the files and the job is done. It looks like with CD's there are hours if not days of preparation required before making each and every CD. Now I know why I never wanted to own one of these cd burners. I'm seriously thinking that although it will cost more, I may be better off just buying a pile of those memory sticks for backing up my computer, and forgetting the CD burning. At least I got a CD player now. By the way, if I ever do get this thing to work, how can I label them with a pen or something like that? I dont have the printer to make labels and it all seems like too much hassle anyhow. But they do need some soft of label, even just numbering them would help. I have at least a dozen CDs that other people made for them, and none have labels, so I got to install them one by one to see what is on them. Either I'm too old for this, or I just dont understand any of it. By the way I'm runing 98SE. Jim |
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