: I am having troble with my cd recorder. i can not make copy because Easy CD Creator 4 drive not work whith win xp

I've used a program called CDex to copy the CD tracks
onto my hard drive before using Easy CD Creator to make
the CD.

Andy

: Which software do I use to record from minidisc to my computer?

I HAVE CONNECTED THE MINIDISC TO THE PC BY PHONO LEADS AND IT WILL PLAY THE MINIDISCS ON THE COMPUTER SO FAR

first you need a cd recording program like easycd creator 4 to record music which will automatically format your disk and you should be able to record and if you are just burning video or data you probably need to format the disk first before it will record.

: hi, i have an hp cd-writer and it is all hooked up to my comouter and when i push the button the cd tray comes out, so i know that its not broken (it better not be its 3 days old) but when i try to push the record button on my screen a red light flashes on the cd burner but nothing happens, i have tryed and tryed to burn a cd but it just doesn't work, please help me, i'm dessperate - katelynn m

: hi, i have an hp cd-writer and it is all hooked up to my comouter and when i push the button the cd tray comes out, so i know that its not broken (it better not be its 3 days old) but when i try to push the record button on my screen a red light flashes on the cd burner but nothing happens, i have tryed and tryed to burn a cd but it just doesn't work, please help me, i'm dessperate - katelynn m

What burning program are you using, OS, and what are you trying to burn (audio, data)?

: Ok, I'll keep this simple, and the smart horses will drink the water.
: Most modern computer systems are designed to go online with or without your permission. This is so that manufacturers can SAVE money and EXPLOIT you.
: I am not going to go into any details because either you know what I mean, or you are a lemming.

: A good music/recording system is one that works. That is, it lets you make music and record it. A good music/recording system does music and recording. That means that it DOES NOT LOG ONTO THE INTERNET. Why? For the same reason that there is not a microwave in your car stereo. Think about it.

: OK. Now tomorrow Matsushita, IBM, Seagrams, HP, MP3.COM, SONY, or Ford could start producing car stereos with mini microwaves in them. They would inevitably be a big hit, after tons of marketing and media saturation. That does not mean that they would be worth it. The same is true for audio workstations. Long ago, computers were designed to compute. They would usually be used to compute mathematical, logical, or graphical equations. Now the average computer can't really do much more than your average 7th grade student if anything.

: If you really want a kick-ass music studio in your computer, you are going to have to make some sacrifices. And the prime sacrifice is giving up your internet programs, installations, extensions, DLL's, control panels, modems, IRQ's, etc. After you do that, and get it all turned off, erased, and cleaned up, it will be smooth sailing.

: The problem is, that it's so DIFFICULT to do that anymore. Now MacOS X and Windows XP (and Linux too) solidly integrate (infiltrate) ethernetworking, internetworking, and wwweb bullcrap into their systems. This means that you can never truly turn off all this crap that you DONT NEED just to make kick-ass tunes on your computer. It also means that the companies that design computers and operating systems are spending way too much energy on things that don't help us professional musicians, dj's, producers, engineers, and sound-designers.

: Consider VIRTUAL MEMORY. This is what you call a half-assed solution. Anybody who has ever tried to improve a computer knows that more RAM memory is always a blessing. Well, which would you rather have Virtual memory or REAL memory? Confused? Which would you rather have, virtual food or real food? It's that simple. Interestingly enough. Most audio programs rely on pure REAL RAM memory and not hard drive space, which is slow. Virtual memory chokes most otherwise fast computer systems.

: However, most (all 2) mainstream web browsers (Netscape and Explorer) require virtual memory to be turned on in order to function properly, if that is even possible with those giant programs. Furthermore, these kinds of programs eat up your hard drive with endless installation files and self-installing, self-activating utilities and robotic intelligences.

: Basically, they are the biggest and the worst kind of computer viruses. AOL and Netscape and Earthlink and Explorer and MSN.com are all going to bully your system into their demands to get into your daily computer life. They don't care if you'd rather be making music, unless it will help them to get you to buy more junk from them and their business companions.

: OK. So what's my point? My point is, you'd better know what yours is if you want to get any music recording done, because right now a huge battle is going on inside your computer--the battle for your hard drive space, your RAM, your CPU time, your email address, your home address, your name, your income, your money, and your time.

: If you really want to make music with your computer, make your computer into more of a microphone/mixer/recorder and less of television.

: If you really want to put out good music, stop letting the world wide web jam your trance mission. Know which tools are good for the job. A wise person said something about how for someone who always carries a hammer to fix things, everything starts looking like a nail.

: Well, if you want to be musical with your computer, stop treating it like it's your tv or the pizza man or something. Those who don't believe me can consider how professional recording studios which have survived the last 20-30 years don't usually have AOL instant messenger bogging down their Neve consoles.

: Know thyself.

Hey Man: Have you seen a little utility called 98Lite? It lets you uninstall a lot of the componets of Windows( Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, etc., very helpful for audio work. Another helpful thing when online is Zone Alarm, you can block all those programs from accessing the internet and keep hackers out to. What you say is totally true though for real audio work you need a dedicated computer.

Good post...

All the windows XP and Mac Osx potential security problems aside. (lets face it, the FBI even tried to stop XP being launched.. MS is more powerful than we think ladies and gentlemen). I do think that what your saying is essentially true.

The problem with your theory is, I have a G4 running OS9 and OSX. I do everything from play games on it to recording 20 bit audio tracks, mixing down and mastering. The machine is a couple of years old now and has never given me any problems that infringe on my music making. Your sense of 'one machine for one job' is admirable although I don't know if it applies so much any more. I am talking from experience with my machine only. I have never owned a MS machine although I have a lot of experience with using them.

It doesn't seem so long ago that the provision to run more than one application at a time was almost unheard of. From then to now, I think a lot of good work has been done to isolate the different App's as they run. I have used OSX for a number of months and have managed to crash it once... (DV Cam firewire and USB at the same time, didn't like it...!) Considering the amount of apps I have running at one time and the amount I used the computer, this is quite extraordinary.

The main security issues lie more with the Windows users as they have taken nearly the whole show. There are Mac attacks but nothing much to worry about from anonymous attackers.

QUOTE:
Virtual memory chokes most otherwise fast computer systems. However, most (all 2) mainstream web browsers (Netscape and Explorer) require virtual memory to be turned on in order to function properly, if that is even possible with those giant programs.

Not on my machine it doesn't. Both programs work without VM perfectly.

I have VM turned 'off' in OS9 although it's apparently on all the time in OSX. If I switch it on in OS9, Audio programs complain that it has to be turned off. The default for OS9 is On although the memory level is set to 1meg ram, which reduces the amount of memory the OS needs by about 15 megs (for some reason). I can't tell a difference in the speed at all though.

Good post all the same

Regards

Steve...R

cool beans, if i do say so myself. i totally agree.

See earlier post for getting LPs onto CD. As for cassettes and videos, it's simply a matter of connecting the audio source (tape deck, video etc.) to the sound card. As for the quality, it depends on both the source and the soundcard. If the source is poor, then even the most expensive soundcard won't make it any better (GIGO - garbage in, garbage out).

Without knowing what kit you've got, all I can suggest is that you try recording some tracks, listen to them before burning them to CD, as see whether you think they're good enough.

Andy

....to save me looking in the same places you've already looked in.

: Greetings,

: I want to convert my mixed DJ tapes to CD's, but I want to be able to manually insert track numbers so that I can hit skip and it goes to the next selection. The music should be continuous, but I want to take advantage of the random access track feature of the CD's when I burn them...otherwise the whole tape just shows up as Track 1. Any ideas on how to master a CD to do this ?

: Thanks,

: Alan
There are 2 ways . 1 is to record straight into you computer as 1 long wave file( using WaveLab or Sound Forge or some type of sound editing software that allows you to see the music in a wave file )then go through the wave file and go to the points where you want to end that track and highlight that part back to the begining . .. .[< < < < ----]then drag that to a new window and then "save as" .type track number the artist name and track title and save . Continue ont until you finish the whole wave . Then you open your burning software and open to the file where you have saved the tracks and then burn
This is the 2nd way . .
If you going straight from tape load tape onto your computer into WaveLab or Sound Forge and then follow the rest of the steps that I gave you . . . Roxio is the best one that I have seen for burning .. make sure if you use Roxio remember to get rid of the gaps by clicking crossfade then click gaps and that will get rid of the 2 second gaps in between the tracks

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This topic has been covered many times before:

1. Connect turntable to LINE IN of soundcard via suitable amplifier (unless turntable has built-in RIAA pre-amp)

2. Record tracks using suitable software (e.g. Cool Edit). Save in WAV format.

3. Clean up tracks as necessary (see Audio Restoration in software section)

4. Write WAV files to CD using suitable software (Nero Burn, Easy CD Creator etc.)

5. Convert to MP3 if required (see Format Converters in software section).

Andy

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