Point taken. Thanks. I'm considering carefully what uses I plan to put the program to.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 7:04 PM Subject: Re: Burning CDs with Windows Media Player Remember, when you price other solutions, that you should keep the total cost in mind. Nero can do incremental backups as well as various kinds of cds, for example. Other packages might do the same.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 2:42 PM Subject: Re: Burning CDs with Windows Media Player > Well, in all modesty, I've been hoping to avoid the (for me) high cost of > that program. > > My usage of any such product is going to be pretty moderate, not as if > I'll > be cranking out CDs every day as a hobby or something. And although I do > want a good way to make backups, it doesn't seem as if that ought to cost > me > a hundred bucks, either. Or maybe the accessibility and usability of Nero > is so superior to the others that there's no contest? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:10 AM > Subject: Re: Burning CDs with Windows Media Player > > > Hi Daniel. > > I would recommend nero burning ROM for all of your music and back up > tasks. > I've used nero for over 5 years and found nothing as accessible and easy > to > use. There are many others on the list using nero too so you won't be > stuck > for help and advice. > > Regards. > > Kevin > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Yardbird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC-Audio" <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 1:04 AM > Subject: Burning CDs with Windows Media Player > > >> Recently, I was successful in teaching myself to rip music from CDs using >> Windows Media Player, which I'm glad to have done even though I intend to >> primarily use CDex for this purpose. Always good to know more than one > way >> to do something. >> >> But I'm not having such success learning the burn procedure with WMP, > which >> I'd hoped to do in order to avoid having to pay for a commercial >> application, considering how seldom I'm bound to use it. >> >> I'm also hoping to be able to use WMP for making backup CDs of data files >> periodically, and I'm afraid, from my explorations, that this will be as >> confusing with WMP as the music burning function seems) >> >> here's my main question on the music burning procedure: I understand >> from >> the help files instructions that you're supposed to designate the files >> to >> be burned by choosing them from the Library and/or playlists. Now, I > don't >> know anything about the, nor do I use playlists to orchestrate my > occasional >> PC audio experiences; I just find the track I want to hear in Windows >> Explorer, press Enter on it, and WMP plays it. I don't set up whole >> sequences of tracks to play. So I'm completely out of it about this > Library >> and playlist stuff. >> >> I kept tabbing around and hitting Enter now and then, and finally found a >> list of all my audio files. But they're just a long list, not divided > into >> the various albums they're in, as they're arranged on my hard drive under > My >> Music. >> >> Is this the Library? All I want to do is burn a CD using all the tracks >> from that same CD as I've ripped it. I don't want to create mixes or any > of >> that. If I still could see better, maybe I'd get into it, the way I once >> made mix tapes now and then on cassette. But I don't really care. I >> just >> want to find the tracks from one CD, load them into whatever list you're >> supposed to load them into, hit a Burn button, and made a new CD. >> >> I'm sorry to be so verbose, but not feeling well today and it's hard to >> concentrate. If anyone reading this realizes that I'm just not one of >> the >> talented blind computer people who can make sense of this function in >> WMP, >> and I ought to buy one of the commercial programs that work more simply, >> I'll consider the advice seriously. I just wanted to give this a try, > since >> I was able to figure out the rip function, although I hate all that > tabbing >> around to so many controls I have no idea the function of in this >> context. >> >> Thanks. >> >> P.S. As I say, I'm willing to bite the bullet and buy a program, but I > was >> hoping not to have to spend as much as $100 for the new Nero release, and > it >> seems the blind-popular Roxio Easy CD Creator has been superseded by Easy >> Media Creator 7, and I've tried the relatively simply and accessible > Premier >> CD Creator program but had terrible problems with it, problems I believe >> I >> described here recently, and the Premier engineers won't get back to me >> about these issues (a ghostly Black Sabbath CD permanently loaded into >> the >> Audio Brabber function, and the program hanging when I press Burn in the >> burn program while accidentally not managing to get any files into the > list. >> These are deal-breaker problems. >> >> Anyway, I'm trying. 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