Several years ago, when CD burner technology just hit the market, SCSI was thought to be the better interface because it offers superior throughput and multitasking capabilities. Most hard drives sold for consumer PCs today have an IDE interface. IDE and SCSI, by the way, refer to the type of connector – or interface – the drive has with your PC. Here are the easy answers: IDE CD-R drives, for all practical purposes, perform as well as SCSI drives and are easier to set up. IDE or SCSI? 4X or 6X? Name brand or no-name? If you’re getting a CD burner for an existing machine, you’ll face a range of perplexing questions. CD-RW drives have the added advantage of being able to use CD-RW disks, which can be written to more than once (erased).
Both types of drives will create audio CDs. These are called either CD-R or CD-RW drives, or CD burners for short. If you’re buying a new PC, have the dealer install the drive that burns CDs. Creating CDs takes horsepower, so get a speedy machine – at least 400 MHz, with a large hard drive (10 gigabytes is not too much), and plenty of memory (RAM): consider 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM a minimum. If you’re just beginning to think about burning your own audio CDs, the first thing you need to consider is your computer. Ruining CDs is so common, in fact, that there’s even a tongue-in-cheek term for it: creating coasters. One problem is that the burning process is unforgiving: If you make just one small mistake while recording, you’ll ruin a blank CD. Using your PC to record – or “burn” – audio CDs is not, unfortunately, as simple as it should be. It’s enough to make a computer geek seem “cool.” Once created, these CDs can be played anywhere – in your car, in your home stereo, in a walkman. That’s because if you love music, and if computers are your hobby, there’s really nothing more satisfying than being able to use your PC to create digitally perfect audio CDs.
Washington (dpa) – Computer-savvy music fans are having a lot of fun these days.
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