100 gig music collection

shaido7 · Nov 27, 2004

Hello All,
I would like to burn all my music to dvd i would like to know the best way i can do this i was reading i could buy(looking to upgrade my sony dru 510)a dual layer burner and burn 8 gigs at once and it will take around 45 minutes or i could buy an 8-12x burner and burn 2 dvds in like 18 minutes,im lazy and not really sure what i should do i know my burner is 8x but my brother owns half of it i was going to buy a new one and give him our sony.also i am worried that i might burn a disc and it not work and ive lost some of my music what is the best way to safeguard my music and make sure the dvd works? I also own a plextor premiun cd burner i was wondering if i should get the new 12x plextor or the new 16x plextor,I am also wondering if plextor is still number 1 with its new burners . thank you for any help

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Crashman · Nov 28, 2004

The best way to assure a disk works in the greatest number of devices is to burn single layer DVD-R format.

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Rob423 · Nov 28, 2004

yep couldn't agree more.

RiTek 100 pack = 40$ dvd-r 8x.... newegg... sick price
used over 1,000... not 1 coaster

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Crashman · Nov 28, 2004

According to CDR Freaks Ritek gets more errors than Taiyo Yuden, but at least you're not getting coasters and the price is killer.

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RichPLS · Nov 28, 2004

all purchased music, right...

<pre>\\//__________________________________
And the sign says "You got to have a membership card to get inside" Huh
So I got me a pen and paper And I made up my own little sign</pre>

Rob423 · Nov 28, 2004

hmmm really crashman?

I been using RIDATA... RITEK (same maker) over 1,000 dvd-r's burnt already..... about 750 were dvd's... rest were backups for systems and backups on movies that i downloaded and i got 2 coasters..and they were my fault, ... i canceled the JOB out because i didn't fill the disc enough..lol so i canceled it and just reburnt a new copy.......other then that, NEWEGG RITEK 100PACKS is all i buy now.... LITEON 811s burner and my house hold panasonic and sony dvd players haven't NOT played my backups once yet, everything runs to the Tee......

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Crashman · Nov 29, 2004

All writes have errors, the player reads past them. Only when you have too many errors does it create a problem. CDR Freaks is very cognitive of that fact and rates the quality of a burn based on the number of errors.

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Rob423 · Nov 29, 2004

hmm... didn't know that, but so far so good on my Home set-top players so thankgod everything is good.

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tmlim · Nov 30, 2004

I'm thinking approx 71,000 1.44MB Floppy discs might be fun aswell.

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diplomat696 · Nov 30, 2004

lmao @ about 750 were dvd's... rest were backups for systems and backups on movies that i downloaded errr ok, probably not what u want to be saying in a public forum there but anywayyy...... And as for the original post, ritek dvdrs are the shizznittt forget about the rest, those are all u need for all your backing up and movie burning fun.

Pavelow · Dec 2, 2004

It is true that -R format, since it was the first, is more compatible with older players. However, since the introduction of +R format, which was designed for movie "streaming" if you will, nearly all the DVD players made today will play +R format. Even the cheapo APEX, CyberHome, and Dynex players recognize burned backups in +R format! IMHO, +R is better for music and movies. -R is fine for data storage.

I use Ritek/Ridata or Verbatim exclusively. Also, the slower the burn, the less errors you will get. Don't worry about those 12x and 16x burners. You'll end up with skips in your music. Burn slow and enjoy the sounds.

Pavelow

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Crashman · Dec 2, 2004

Actually you have that BACKWARDS. The CHEAP players played MORE FORMATS from the beginning!

Most Japanese companies were concerned about protecting their partners in the DVD-R forum from copy infringement. So high quality Japanese players were initially, INTENTIONALLY limited from playing certain formats.

Meanwhile the Chinese didn't care about copy infringment. Add to that, they wanted their players to play commonly available "street DVDs" on the Chinese market, in a way they meant to SUPPORT pirating movies in order to increase their market viability.

So it's always been the Apex's and so forth that support the most formats, while Panasonic, Pioneer, and Sony have always supported the fewest formats.

After a while companies cave in. That's because they actually have to compete against the "play everything" cheapos. It's a bad decision financially to cause people to buy the cheaper unit simply because yours doesn't support the illegal DVD's they get off the street.

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Pavelow · Dec 2, 2004

Ahhhhhhh, Soooooooo, said the blind man to the deaf mute. I sit corrected. Suffice to say my $188 JVC 65G will not play +RW or -RW, but the darned $25 CyberHome I bought for my mother in law does!

Pavelow

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Crashman · Dec 2, 2004

It actually started with resistance of these Japanese manufacturers to support SVCD format, because it's a popular format for sharing movies over the internet. SVCD format has been mostly replaced with high-compression formats (XVID is popular) amongst pirates, but often converted to SVCD for street sale.

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Pavelow · Dec 3, 2004

I choose not to use those formats because of extreme loss in quality. I also only backup what I own. I've only got a little over 200 DVD titles, but nearly every one is backed up so the kids don't destroy the original. My nephew-in-law (?) used DVIX or whatever because he can't tell the difference on his 21-inch TV. But you get one of those big screens and you can see pixilation everywhere.

Pavelow

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Crashman · Dec 3, 2004

You can get high quality from DiVX, it just takes more space. Like, 1.5GB to do a 4.x GB DVD in similar quality. Pirates like to keep their movies around 700MB in order to reduce download time.

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Crashman · Dec 3, 2004

BTW, I can do SVCD at TV quality.

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Pavelow · Dec 3, 2004

Yeh, my nephew likes to use the CDs that he can get for free. So, his quality suffers at 700mb to compress a 7.5gb movie. He splits the discs of course.

But, sorry for going off topic.

Pavelow

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Crashman · Dec 3, 2004

I compress 8GB movies to 4GB and leave them in DVD format, the loss in quality isn't noticable on my computer monitor.

Original DVD movies were around 4.7GB, they looked sharp too.

Movie companies come out with movies that have added features and a bit higher "quality" simply to make copying the movie more difficult.

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Pavelow · Dec 3, 2004

My personal limit is 26% compression. At that point I split the backup to two DVD+Rs. When dual layer media comes down in price (probably a year), I won't compress anything. That is until Hollywood decides to market the much hyped HDDVDs. Then we'll be back in the compression market until backup media catches up.

Pavelow

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Rob423 · Dec 4, 2004

a Standard Store bought DVD compressed with Shrink to fit onto a 4.7gb disc looks Excellent..... it's so great when you can buy a dvd and have a backup just incase your original breaks and you can watch your backup in almost identical quality, i love technology!!!

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tmlim · Dec 6, 2004

I agree. I tried that for the first time on the weekend. Full size around 7GB, compress down to 4.3GB and very very close to the original in terms of video quality. Sound, I couldn't tell a difference at all.

It's handy, because you can also take out the other feature you don't need. eg. some of the bonus features, subtitles, language tracks, etc.

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Rob423 · Dec 7, 2004

Yeppers!

nice Quote..

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sparky853 · Dec 10, 2004

Just to get back on topic, anyone else wonder how a person get 100GB of music onto a 74GB HDD??

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diplomat696 · Dec 10, 2004

lmao sparky, i hear u on dat one....

Anyone know of a good settop divx player that i can get?

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