Mix tapes the Next Generation
Written: Oct 16 '00
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Product Rating:
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Pros: Music
Cons: Back-up attempts
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| lovely_zelda's Full Review: HP CD-Writer Plus 9300i Series |
I am one of the chosen ones now. I am one of the ones who can take the 800+ MP3s happily sitting in my hard drive(they're all public domain, I swear! Or they're songs from my band. We remake a lot of great songs. We sound almost exactly like the real artists too. It's uncanny...)and turn them into little CDs, ready to pop into a conventional CD player and listen to!
Not that I brought my stereo back to school since all it did last year was take up space while I listened to my MP3 collection. Still, it's a good thing to have for two reasons:
Reason the first: People who have CD Burners look cool to people who don't.
Reason the second: I've taken my music pirat--uhm, "intensive browsing"(it really is just like borrowing a book from the library...and never giving it back...)to the next level.
True, those are both shallow and pathetic reasons, but it's why I bought my CD burner. And here are the valuable lessons it can teach.
What the inside of a computer looks like Have you ever wondered what your computer looks like from the inside? Well, unless you're content to use CD-Writer Plus as a paperweight based solely on "Reason the first", you're going to find out. Possibly twice. Because the first time I put it in, it didn't take. So I got to unhook everything(externally), haul my hard drive to the kitchen table, and try again. At least it worked that time.
That if you're recording music, you should always preview all the songs. Completely. Why? Because I've got two CDs where half the songs cut off early. And I get to proudly say that I made them. Lucky me! So, I would listen and make sure. Because some of those MP3's aren't the quality you would get if you'd ripped them off one of your own CDs.
That if you're trying to back up your hard drive, good old 9300 has a tendancy to stop working. Yes, boys and girls, during the fear that my traitorous Gateway was going to die again, I decided to back up my entire system, a 6 CD endeavor. Hey, it's why I bought the ten pack at Costco. Things were fine until 9300 decided that he didn't like CD #5 and that CD#5 was an evil and stupid thing that didn't deserve to back-up my hard drive. And did I mention that I only bought CD-R's for music purposes? So, now I've got half my hard drive sitting on 4 good CDs and part of an evil CD. Hopefully I won't need to find out which half.(With my luck the system back-up software probably thought it would be fun to back-up solitaire and the other dippy games I have before anything necessary for survivial...)
At least both endeavors went fairly quickly...and quietly...still, I expect my technology to be quiet and nonbothersome. Fortunately, it makes about as much noise as the CD-ROM above it. One physical problem with mine is with the door--it slides out fine, but it tends to need an extra push to go back in. Which I find a bit worrisome because I don't really want to be the idiot who breaks her CD-RW drive because it didn't move fast enough one day...
So, basically, this burner has worked far better on music than...well, anything else. Which is fine for me because I essentially got it for the neo-blank tape elements. One thing that had lately been running through the back of my mind is the possibly of games...back in my day, when we had two sizes of floppy drives(I'm old, I know), you could happily distribute games to friends and family(well, my family only did it once, despite the fact that half my childhood videos were illegally copied) Now I'm wondering if it'll carry over to the CD Rom games of now. I'm thinking not, but I'll let my loyal fans know.("loyal fans" are anyone who doesn't turn me into the FBI after the onslaught of copyright violations in this review alone...)
Recommended:
Yes
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