At 01:21 PM 1/21/2006, Tom Fine wrote:
Elliot Mazer is involved in a venture that sells full 44.1/16-bit
CD-quality files for prices more akin to printed CD's. My only beef
with that is, it's not market price. You're paying for a full ride
but getting no packaging, liner notes or aluminum/semi-permanent CD
in the deal.
Tom, our best bet is to convince Mr. Mazer to use MAM-A or other gold
phthalocyanine dye CDs which actually may last longer according to
recently published accelerated aging tests by Joe Iraci.
Once again:
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Forum-Bestandserhaltung/downloads/iraci.pdf
I agree about the album art missing, but please don't assume that
burned CDs are inferior to manufactured ones. At the very least, it's
likely to be a non-issue, at the best, it's possible that the burned
CDs have a longer life expectancy.
Sorry to nit pick on this, but we have a huge PR problem started by
the IBM data tape guy in Germany. It ticks me off. FUD simply FUD from
the company credited with causing the invention of the term (check
Wikipedia).
Cheers,
Richard