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Re: Fostex v Marantz v HHB mini-review

Subject: Re: Fostex v Marantz v HHB mini-review
From: Syd Curtis <>
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 22:18:43 +1000
Lang,

        Following on from your comment:

>
> I think you're confusing Audio Compact Disc with CD-R. They are two
> different things. If you burn an Audio Compact Disc, then all soundfiles
> must be 16-bit and 44.1 kHz. But we're talking about data CDs or data DVD=
s,
> which can be used to back up any computer file.
>

I think I know that if I burn an audio CD of wildlife sounds, any CD player
can play it.  (Except perhaps if I fill it with 80 minutes of sound there
are players that don't handle that much.)

However if with my Mac G3 I burn a data CD of the same sound, a PC won't be
able to read it?  And possibly even Macs with an earlier operating system
won't either.  Am I right?

This would make data CDs a bit risky for archiving long term.  When I have
to replace my G3, will I still be able to read its' data CDs?  A chore if I
have to transfer them all from the G3 before disposing of it; disaster, if
I'm replacing it because it died.


Syd



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