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Burner or Mp3 player?

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snowboy56
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Which one is easier and less expsensive to get music from your computer to your walkman or car stereos??
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skir216
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internal burner
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ten80
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If you have a car stereo and discman, get a burner. You can burn music CD's and data also. With Cd prices around $0.10 a CD these days, it is definately worth it. A good burner is about $70-100 for a 6-10x write.

Cheers,
Christophe
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Harvey
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Definitally burner... mp3 players are still relatively new so they're crazy expensive. Burners are cheap, and CDs are crazy cheap, so it seems like the best option.
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g-dubs
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does anyone know of a cheap burner. all ive seen is the Philips CD Recorder that is $400. could someone give me the names of some cheap burners and if they have a website or whatever???

thanks
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PrayForSnow
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Go for the TDK music CD-RW drive its the best out there. Also if you have the money it really helps to get a CD player that plays MP3's. What this means is that you can burn your MP3's like data and play them like a normal CD but since MP3's are compressed you can fit 250-300 songs on a CD. Even if you burn a normal CD you can always slap a few more MP3's to fill up the space and just listen to those on your MP3 CD player.


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Drail
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i got an mp3 player for X-mas and it's cool. kinda expensive for shit still though...get the Nomad for $500. it holds 150 cd's of space. good for the price.
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g-dubs
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ummm im a real idiot when it comes to technology and stuff, so would someone mind explaining to me just what a burner and mp3 player do. how do you get mp3's?? does a burner attach to your computer?? any other info??

thanks
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ten80
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a CD burner is a CDROM drive that can write CDs. You can replace your original CDrom drive with one or get one that is in an external case and connects via USB, SCSI, or Firewire (external ports put simply). With a Cd burner, you can put files on a CD. You can also copy a music cd so that if plays in a normal CD player.

MP3's are CD music tracks which have been compressed (made smaller to take less room) using a special algorithm. For example, CD audio takes 10MB of space per minute of audio. A MP3 is much more efficient, using approximately 1MB for 1 minute of audio.

An MP3 player is a small, compact device which reads the compressed audio file and converts it to an analog signal for your headphones.

MP3's can be made using MP3 conversion programs which let you choose audio CD tracks and convert them to MP3's which you can store on your computer's hard drive. MP3's are good because they are digital, meaning that they are at the same quality as a CD (if you choose that quality from the various qualities available).

A Cd burner should NOT be more than $140 for a 10x4x32x (10x write, 4x re-write, 32x read CD). External burners are more expensive as they have a case, circuit board, power supply, and interface cable. They are generally easier to install because you don't need to open your computer; just install the drivers, plug in the drive and go.

Hope that clears things up for ya!
Christophe
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DynaSkiier
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Go to overstock.com they always have a couple for a really good price. I picked one up for 80 bucks! not too terrible 8x writes fast enough for me (20 min. burn time for 80 min of music)
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g-dubs
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with these type of burners like dynaskier mentioned, would you be able to make a mix, like put in a cd and take a song from it, then put in another cd and take a song from that cd, etc.???
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Harvey
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g-dubs: yep, you can do that... you take the songs that you want off the CD and put them on your hard drive. You can then take the songs on your hard drive and put them on a CD. So in essence, you can make your own mix CD.
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pmo1210
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cd burner all the way, then try to sell cd's 4 5 bucks
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Five40Guy
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burner, trying selling cds???? uh not a good idea if you get caught then your in deep shit but the chances are slim so whatever/
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Nik
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neither. MD player.

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Harvey
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Yeah, MD players are amazing.. BUT, it's annoying to transfer songs onto them, because unless you're digitally copying a CD, you have to record all the tracks in real-time. Good for bootlegging concerts and stuff though.
Matt
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wntrwill
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MD players are awesome...and that whole business of selling burnt cd's being risky is bull...no offense but in our school that is almost a necessity. 1 person buys a new cd the first day its out and they can make more then $100 bucks selling copies of it...no one cares around here. Too bad thats one of the reasons napsters in trouble..
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Rapt0r
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BURNER
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emilypotterskis
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agreed...

i love my burner, i'm bored i make a cd end of story.
*emily
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Rapt0r
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MP3 players dont have enough room. UNless you get the Nomad Jukebox. It holds 150 CDs of music. 400 bucks.
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ten80
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the jukebox is now $269 at
http://www.nomadworld.com/welcome.asp

and for those of you looking for a good burner,

Philips 8x/4x/32x CD-RW EIDE internal down to $90 after rebate  at
http://officedepot.com/Stores/default.asp?
and the $30 rebate is also at this site.


cheers,
Christophe

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Rapt0r
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nice work ten80. You are just full of information
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wntrwill
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seriously...i would have never found that stuff. good work.
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ten80
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thanks, I feel really special now ;)

I just check www.dealnn.com and www.dealmac.com all the time because I like Macs. These sites have the best deals as soon as they come out.

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SkierX
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I'm all about the MD player. I got a Sharp model from a ew years ago and it works like an experienced girl in bed (Very Fine!)! You can get all the benefits of MP3's and burners in a compact size. The only drawbacks are the time that it takes to record sometimes and the fact that few people have them that you can't regularly say, 'Can I see what MD's you got.' But despite this, I love my MD and take it everywhere.
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conceptsboy
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BURNER!
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Nik
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guess what i did. i left my MD player on a train! i'm a retard. you know those STUPID little mess pouches on the seat in front of you. well, because the train took the wrong track (could have got us killed) we were three hours late. that made my trip 9 hrs instead of 6 so my batteries ran out and i left it in the STUPID pouch and forgot about it. hmmm.... that was a really boring post. i wonder if anybody got this far. if so, congratulations on being the most attentive reader in history. you all should get a metal! and a full ski sponsorship.

Nik
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Billups
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i want my medal dude.
Later,
chris
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Nik
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i didn't say that I would give you a medel, i said you SHOULD get a metal. if i had any i might think about giving you one.

Nik, maker of:
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ECFS-Attitash
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I got the Nomad Jukebox...its fucking sweet...the only problem is battery life. You can always use connector cables for your car.
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yeti
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holy shit man...you went back three months worth of posts to reply to this!

'Dumb man gives wife grand piano...smart man gives wife upright organ'
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FRZGene
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get a burner and then a rio volt mp3 cd player

mini disc is dope too, i have a mini disc player/recordier
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mammothpunks
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mp3-cd players are the best mix - you can fit 10 hours of music on a single cd you burn, and you can get a really good one for $120. nomads wear off the batterys, and if you get a new cd, you cant just pop it in and play it. mp3 plasyers are too expensive, and on most of them you can only fit 1 hour of music in the memory
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FRZGene
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ya get a rio volt mp3 cd player.

it plays normal cds, but it also plays cd-rw's. so you can format the cd-rw for direct cd, meaning you can drag and drop songs on, and when u wanna take it off, just delete it. when u wanna add songs just drag it on, u dont havta burn it.

and u can fit 700 megs or whatever a cd-rw holds of songs on it, thats a buttload of cds.

it alsp plays normal cds too.
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yeti
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And the best part about the Rio is that if you have the time, try to get a lot of songs in .wma. The quality is close to mp3's but the size is less than half. You can fit almost a thousand songs on a cd!

'Dumb man gives wife grand piano...smart man gives wife upright organ'
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patg
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ok so with this rio volt mp3 cd player, instead of clicking on 'make an audio cd' you would click on 'make a data cd' so you can put 700megs of mp3 on the cd, and then the rio volt would play that data cd?

-Pat-

'all the independent women in the house...show us your tits and shut your motherfuckin mouths!'
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FRZGene
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ya u can do that, but wahts better is format it for direct cd. then u dont havta burn it everytime u wanna add new shit, u can drag and drop. i have some program taht came with my comp adaptec or something, im sure most other programs u can make direct cd too.

ya so go to data cd and see if it says direct cd. buta data cd will work
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patg
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ohhh yeah i know what your talkin about, it says 'make a direct cd for use on this computer only' something like that...yeah i get it. thats a sweet deal for $130...i might have to buy this thing

-Pat-

'all the independent women in the house...show us your tits and shut your motherfuckin mouths!'
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oreopancake.
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burner imo.
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