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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
