Durability of burned cds with .ogg files

[Steve Holmes]

Just be careful to not buy too cheap a CD.  I'be been there, done
that, and ended up with a 30% failure rate.  Usually the failures
occurred at burn time so there was no real data loss but still.  I've
been using a memorex product that I bought at Office Max for about
$.50 a piece and the failure rate has been much less.  I sometimes
still have power calibration problems but often I can start over and
go on with the same disk.

I use the zinf audio player for linux which can play ogg or mp3, no sweat.

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 10:51:31AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Well, yeah, but you can get several regular cds' content on one burned data cd.
> I wouldn't go the route of hard drives; just think how much stuff you'd lose
> when a hard drive malfunctions. That happened to me a year ago with a hard
> drive; fortunately, it gave me enough warning to transfer my linux system to a
> new drive before the end--you don't always get that kind of warning though. At
> least if a data cd malfunctions it's not most of your collection.
> Sometimes you can get really good deals if you watch places like office depot
> for sales of 200-cd packs or spools. Only the last time I tried to use the
> office depot site, I couldn't complete my order and had to call it in. But there
> are deals out there.
> I give my jewel cases for regular cds away to other people now because I like
> the binders so
> much better.
> 
> Cheryl
> 
> 
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