dvd-r versus cdr

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   this is a little off topic, but, i'm trying to put all my music onto cdr's and NOT have them stored on my computer and i'm grappling with the diferences between cdr's and dvdr's......with cdr's i can put a maximum of 80 minutes of wave files on a disc.....but.....i want to have all my tracks of a particuliar artist together on one disc......that leads to the question of which recordable formats, if any, hold a larger capicity and what would that capacity be.....can i use a 4.7 gb dvdr to record wave music files on and how much time, minutes wise, would that equate to....also...i'm hearing about double layered dvd-r's which double the capacity to approximately 8.5 gb.....

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edtop40 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 29 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote edtop40 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: dvd-r versus cdr Posted: 10 February 2010 at 9:36am
	this is a little off topic, but, i'm trying to put all my music onto cdr's and NOT have them stored on my computer and i'm grappling with the diferences between cdr's and dvdr's......with cdr's i can put a maximum of 80 minutes of wave files on a disc.....but.....i want to have all my tracks of a particuliar artist together on one disc......that leads to the question of which recordable formats, if any, hold a larger capicity and what would that capacity be.....can i use a 4.7 gb dvdr to record wave music files on and how much time, minutes wise, would that equate to....also...i'm hearing about double layered dvd-r's which double the capacity to approximately 8.5 gb..... Edited by edtop40
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aaronk Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 92	Post Options Post Reply Quote aaronk Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 February 2010 at 11:37am
	I haven't experimented enough with DVD-R (or DVD+R) to know how stable those discs are. One of the main drawbacks, though, is that they obviously won't play in a standard CD player. I'm not even sure if a DVD player would play wav files off of a burned disc. In another thread, we had discussed keeping songs backed up onto multiple drives. If storage is the only thing you're concerned about, I would recommend having the wav files stored on two different external hard drives rather than burning them all to DVD. It will save a ton of time, you'll never have to rip the songs ever again, and you won't have to worry about the discs going bad or getting damaged. Just always keep the songs on at least two different drives, in case one fails. Edited by aaronk

edtop40 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 29 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote edtop40 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 February 2010 at 12:18pm
	aaron, i truely welcome your opinion, but i'm not too swift with computers......how would one go about doing that??.....also.....as everyone probably knows, with itunes, if you change the volume level of a particuliar track so as to keep all the volume levels the same for listening purposes, if you burn a disc of that playlist, it will burn the disc as if the volume level never was changed....does anyone know if there is a better program where one can adjust the volume levels of tracks and then be able to burn them to a disc, keeping the adjusted volumes levels intact??
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eriejwg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 10 June 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 41	Post Options Post Reply Quote eriejwg Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 February 2010 at 1:54pm
	I only know of a program designed for mp3's that will adjust volume and keep them intact - MP3Gain - and, it's free. Ed, if you're going to store audio data on multiple hard drives, one way I've saved a ton of time, and again free software, is Foldersync. Edited by eriejwg

crapfromthepast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 14 September 2006 Location: United States Status: Online Points: 16	Post Options Post Reply Quote crapfromthepast Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 February 2010 at 2:46pm
	I experimented with .WAV files on a writable DVD disc, and no, it won't play on a standard DVD player. You can probably fit about 100-120 songs on a single-layer DVD-R or DVD+R in .WAV format. It works, but it's really not your best option going forward. I'd have to agree with Aaron and with some other posts in some earlier threads: save them in whatever format you like (I do .WAV as well), in a consistent directory structure, on at least two different hard drives. In the future, you'll need to migrate all your data to the next technology (think of it like taking all the data off your floppy discs and then throwing out the floppies), and the easiest and least expensive way to do it is to just buy a hard drive every two years or so and copy everything from the old drive onto the new drive. You only want to extract info from a physical disc once. Plus, hard disc space is dirt cheap.