Making Audio CDR media from Computer CDR

[lagniappe]

I purchased a standalone CD recorder for the sole purpose
of capturing the audio from an extensive vinyl record
collection and transferring it to my computer. I play
the records on a nice turntable/preamp and save to CDR.
Then I go to my computer, rip the tracks, and compress
to MP3 format for archival and playback. That way I
can enjoy my music without wearing out my originals.

The price of the "audio CDR" media is eating my lunch,
and it really burns me since I own the original vinyl
and therefore have already paid my "RIAA Tax".

Is there some identifying data on these media that I
can pre-burn onto regular fifteen-cent CDRs, so that
my recorder will work with them?

thanks,

Martin

[Graham Mayor]

Audio discs are hard coded in an area of the surface that the writer cannot
access, so the answer is no.
You could, use your PC to capture the sound from vinyl and write to the
cheaper data discs on the PCs writer - see
http://www.gmayor.dsl.pipex.com/copy_vinyl_to_CDR.htm

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lagniappe wrote: I purchased a standalone CD recorder for the sole purpose of capturing the audio from an extensive vinyl record collection and transferring it to my computer. I play the records on a nice turntable/preamp and save to CDR. Then I go to my computer, rip the tracks, and compress to MP3 format for archival and playback. That way I can enjoy my music without wearing out my originals. The price of the "audio CDR" media is eating my lunch, and it really burns me since I own the original vinyl and therefore have already paid my "RIAA Tax". Is there some identifying data on these media that I can pre-burn onto regular fifteen-cent CDRs, so that my recorder will work with them? thanks, Martin

[Roger]

>> I purchased a standalone CD recorder for the sole purpose of capturing the audio from an extensive vinyl record collection and transferring it to my computer. I play the records on a nice turntable/preamp and save to CDR. Then I go to my computer, rip the tracks, and compress to MP3 format for archival and playback. That way I can enjoy my music without wearing out my originals. The price of the "audio CDR" media is eating my lunch, and it really burns me since I own the original vinyl and therefore have already paid my "RIAA Tax". Is there some identifying data on these media that I can pre-burn onto regular fifteen-cent CDRs, so that my recorder will work with them? thanks, Martin
What is the make & model of the standalone cd recorder?

Roger

[Brian O]

"lagniappe" <funkychateau@yahoo.com> wrote I purchased a standalone CD recorder for the sole purpose of capturing the audio from an extensive vinyl record collection and transferring it to my computer. I play the records on a nice turntable/preamp and save to CDR. Then I go to my computer, rip the tracks, and compress to MP3 format for archival and playback. That way I can enjoy my music without wearing out my originals. The price of the "audio CDR" media is eating my lunch, and it really burns me since I own the original vinyl and therefore have already paid my "RIAA Tax". Is there some identifying data on these media that I can pre-burn onto regular fifteen-cent CDRs, so that my recorder will work with them? thanks, Martin

Graham mentioned something similar, but you could record to CD-RW on your
stand-alone CD recorder, then use a computer CD writer (and appropriate
software) to copy the contents of the CD-RW to standard CD-R discs. This
method obviously requires an extra step to make the copy on the computer and
does require the purchase of an audio CD-RW.