Re: [tlug] Audio CD Issues

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:27:20 +0900, Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
<ronfaxon@example.com> wrote:

> Another question - what CD-R disks are best to get?

Expensive ones. :)

Seriously, you should be fine with any brand-name (e.g. TDK, Sony,
Maxell, etc.) discs these days. Do *not* buy the cheap, no-name media,
or you will regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but you
*will* regret it! [1]

To elaborate, a lot of those no-name discs use cheap metals, which
will start flaking or otherwise deteriorating in a few years. Plus,
even while they work, you may get more defective burns due to the
same.

Later in this thread, someone (Dmytro?) mentioned cdparanoia, which is
a fantastic tool for ripping audio, especially off damaged discs. I
cannot remember whether you are a GNOME man or a KDE man, but you
probably have enough of the GNOME libs installed to use gRIP[2], which
is a GUI front-end to cdparanoia, mp3enc/oggenc, etc. (It basically
automates the entire ripping / encoding process, and has CDDB / FreeDB
support as well, to cut down on the necessary typing in of disc and
track info.)

-Josh

[1] Easy reference: 5 points