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Hmm. Sorry, I use WINCIM or MacCIM. I don't know how to change the forum name with TapCIS. Kevin or Rich should be able to help, though. It is confusing that there are so many places you can change names — in you GUI, in the forum "Conference" area, in…
Paul, You're absolutely right, of course. I was nitpicking to a certain degree. When I was doing one-off CDs as a business, I had a dedicated machine that was bare-bones, as you advocated. Only made one frisbee when I was starting out, but it was through operator head-space error, not…
Paul, I think the CDR will also be controlled though aspi4dos, but someone from one or more of the premastering software companies would be a more authoritative source of information than I. Deirdre'? Paul? Peter? Jackson? or Jack? You can tell by watching the screen when you boot up –…
Harry, You still look like Daniel. Have you checked the forum settings as well as your own interface settings? Kathy
MSCDE X is used by CD players, but not by recorders. If you're using a SCSI adapter (and I think that's required by some, if not all, premastering s/w — I've been told that such s/w makes calls directly to the ASPI drivers), the recorder is controlled by the drivers…
Dana, Actually, (as you know from our phone conversations) I have been kind of amused by this guy. His infinite capacity for self-delusion (does he really think anyone believes he's such a high roller as he says? People I know who really are in such positions generally don't have to…
>>But sometimes they are called for when an individual need to be "klunked on the head" because they are offering poor service. Very interesting choice of words. How much were you willing to pay Dana for her consulting? She is a top consultant in this field, btw, in case that…
Try "Micky Mouse."
David, Just an interested bystander (not a reseller), but why would you go with a high-end recorder and low-end software? Kathy
David, >>First, as for "no one wants to help me" I am frankly surprised by the huge amount of help that I have received. So, you are off point here. Think again. I have also been somewhat amazed that people continue to offer you support in spite of your rudeness.…
David, Excessive vibration certainly can mess up a recording. Doesn't your writer manual tell you that? Mine did. Kathy
Jerry, If it doesn't make good discs, then the $XK they spent on it made it pretty expensive, not cheap, right? Kathy
Richard, I'd hand the disc back if I were you — without some basic information such as software, writer, procedures, etc. there's no reasonable way to diagnose the problem. It's tricky enough to find out what's wrong when you know all the variables! Kathy
Sounds like someone trying to pass the buck… Philips makes good equipment, and even their less expensive OEM'd writers are not "cheap" in any sense of the word. But since you're going on hearsay, we'll forgive you Kathy
Richard, Where did you get a "cheap" Philips recorder? Didn't know they made such… Kathy
Agustin, I don't know if they still do this, but try: Grupo Barak, S.A. de C.V. Rio Consulado 517 Col. Atlampa Nonoalco Mexcio City, 06450 Mexico, D.F. C.P. 525 541-3150 fax 525 541-4193 Good luck! Kathy
Dana, Thanks for the reply, but it was actually Scott Bracken who wrote the message you replied to. In one day's use of the One-Off CD Shop's account I used to use he managed to confuse at least three or four people . However, since I'm here anyway…. >>3M, who…
Thomas, What you are describing sounds to me like a SCSI device ID conflict. What kind of SCSI adapter are you using, and what software drivers? Adaptec has something called EZSCSI that takes a lot of the guesswork out of configuring your SCSI chain. Kathy
David, >>I call it like I see it. Perhaps you need new glasses. Your response to Dana's helpful suggestions (which were repetitious only because you didn't seem to catch the drift of the information you were give by her and others) was insulting and uncalled for. You owe Dana and…
David, Your suggestion might work for some programs, but many S&R products have very picky requirements for storing their applications to CDROM if you plan to run from the disc. Spira may work well as a premastering tool if the developer follows the right steps for publishing, but please don't…
John, Even your 8mm tape is really going to deteriorate after 5-7 years — it's just the nature of the material. It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to re-record them every 4-5 years to be safe, and I believe it's recommended that you retension them at least once a…
Bob, Good idea — I'll ask Allen about it next time I talk to him. Kathy
Bob — I don't remember saying anything about Marantz — must have been Scott masquerading as me in the TOOCDS account again 😉 Kathy
Jerry, That's too bad — you must have attended a school with English teachers not trained in linguistics, but rather in "traditional" English grammar. Grammarians are easily spotted because they are always telling people how they "should" use language (the prescriptive school) rather than describing how language is actually used…
Aw, c'mon, Dana — everybody knows you're a writer, therefore you don't know anything Kathy
But, but… isn't the requirement to read standard formats a standard? I'm not questioning the acknowledged expert here; if you say it isn't a standard, I'll believe it, but I'll be durned if I'll understand it! Kathy
>>Kathy did beat me to it. Nyah, nyah Serves you right for working when you should be keeping up with the forum! Kathy
William, This drive is NOT CD-R in totality — it uses phase change technology, not CD-Recordable. Panasonic is causing a lot of confusion with their advertising. It will read CD-ROMs as well as its Phase Change media, but it doesn't write CD-Rs, if I remember correctly. Please be aware also…
Mark, Matthew Leek was telling me about the results they've seen on different brands of media. ** Lurker alert! Please note, this is not a comment on the data writing, just the printable labels on CD-Rs!** Apparently some work better than others. You can call Matt at 408-246-5609 for more…
Jerry, Or she could have been saying "pardon my jumping in." Perfectly valid construction. Kathy
David, I think this application calls for more than simple file storage — one would also like to be able to find the data and display it someday, presumably. A search & retrieval product like Folio VIEWS (or many of the other products available) is indicated here. Kathy The One-Off…
David, It's probably not the writer or the media — as I mentioned in another thread, your Mitsumi players are a probable culprit. There has been a lot of discussion recently about the fact that many CDROM player manufacturers play fast & loose with the standards… in fact, some people…
>>We are very scared since we are presently burning about 50 CD-R disks per day and based upon checking them on the Mitsumi drives about 10% of the disks are unreadable. >>ANY HELP OR ADVICE WOULD BE MOST WELCOME! Get some better readers. Kathy
Carl, Plasmon uses the Philips engine, with their own firmware. It's considered quite solid. Kathy The One-Off CD Shops
>> it can save innumerable hours of frustration if you avoid doing those things that just simply cannot be done. Gee!! Why didn't I think of that Kathy
It's not so much a loss of fidelity, as the fact that on cassette tape there isn't the fidelity one expects from CD audio in the first place. In addition, you have the tape hiss, and any other extraneous artifacts to detract from the quality. CD audio makes these much…
Randy, You should wander over to the Folio forum and ask some of the people there who are working with LegalVIEWS by JuriSoft and Watermark's utility that embeds a thumbnail sketch of scanned documents into the fulltext indexed infobases. A very elegant solution to a messy problem… Kathy The One-Off…
Uh oh, I'm going to add to the ID confusion again 😉 I'm sure Scott could answer this, but I beat him to it: CD Associates, Inc. 15375 Barranca Pkwy Suite I-101 Irvine, CA 92718 714-733-8580 fax 714-453-0868 Kathy The One-Off CD Shops
>> >>So what does _that_ do to the reflection for the laser? I don't think it does anything. The aluminum/silver is on top of the gold, which reflects the laser beam. It's simply an expensive label. Kathy
Carl, One thing our technicians noticed in the process of testing media was that it is true that different brands/formulae seem to work better with different recorders. It could be a matter of "tuning" the writing laser for particular media, as some manufacturers suggest. Since the tolerances are extremely fine,…
Carl, I"ll be happy to have the report sent to you — please ** email ** your snail-mail address. It will be a week or two before those go out, however. We gave the presentation last week from the data & notes, but now we have to write the full…
>>The new one that I have heard is that if you hold the disc up to light and can see through it the disc is no good. Aren't rummors fun? Since you can see through any CD, gold or aluminum, if the label doesn't obscure it, that's an interesting test.…
Georges, Have to say that I haven't used the Sony — Scott Bracken is the person who posted that message. We've straightened out the ID names now, but for a day or so the account still had my name on it from ages ago, and he didn't realize it. Sorry…
Frederic, Our company has been testing CD-Rs for the past year or so, and presented our results last week at the Replitech conference in Santa Clara. You might recall asking for a copy of that report a few months ago. I'm planning to have that published by next week. Kathy…
Robert, Please see my reply to Jerry — the message you replied to was written by Scott Bracken, not me. We've got the forum IDs straightened out now. Kathy
Matthew, I'd add to Jerry's reply that not only would you have to digitize and edit your cassette-recorded music, but you would probably not be happy with the results. If you want to do CD audio, your best solution is to get a DAT recorder. Kathy The One-Off CD Shops
I'd like to clear something up here — I did not write the message you're replying to. I think that's the account number that goes with the One-Off CD Shops CDVENB account, so Scott Bracken is the author. I've let Scott know he was using my name inadvertantly. But let…
Matthew Leek of New Z Productions showed me some of the latest samples of discs printed with the Craig Associates inkjet printer last week. Really beautiful! And he had some samples of the new TDK pure white printable blanks, too. Makes the colors stand out better than the pseudo-gold color.…
Dana, I remember asking Allen Adkins about this a couple of years ago, since the Sony 900e was also supposed to be daisy-chainable. He said something like the problem is one of sustaining the signal to multiple devices down the SCSI chain without letting the buffers run dry, I think.…
Carl, I"ve been using cyanine CD-Rs successfully on my Philips drive for nearly 3 years now — both Taiyo Yuden and TDK. Both varieties of blanks from most vendors are quite good on most recorders now according to our tests. Kathy The One-Off CD Shops
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