The CD recorder just quit working. I gave it to my buddy Dave to see if he could fix it. But alas, the holiday season wants more buckage from this little elf, in the means of purchasing recording items. The Recorder I had was a 3-year-old pioneer. I hooked up the RCA cables to the analog and pressed record and played away. Although, it would only use audio CD and I could never place tracks into it, It was just a long play format. Thanks for the heads up on the Nomad MP3 recorder. It retails for $249 with a $100 rebate and another $50 rebate, which ends on DEC 7. If it where $99 that would be fine, but trying to get past $150 in rebates is tough to get by my wife. "I know honey its $250 bucks but look at these mail in rebates!" It never plays well with the wife. I think I'm going to go with my 4 track tape recorder then burn it to my computer.
Oh, did a Christmas gig tonight, I wish I could do, "oh, holy night" all year long, I love the folks coming up to me saying they got chills. Cool...

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Timely information, sir!
I just asked about the YamahaCRW-F1 on the yamaha-psr-styles Forum

cheers
Eddie

Eddie,
IMO the Yammy CRW F 1 is the happenin' burner.

The Phillips one mentioned here only burning at 4x's.....zzzzzzzzzz. Maybe ok for one tune, but if you want to burn 12 cuts and make 6 copies to give out.....you'll be at it for quite awhile.
Terry

Thanks Terry for your enthusiasm.
Before I go any further, I have looked at the url supplied by PRO and admit to being a little confused about the range available.
I can see CRW's Internal and External;
CRW'2 which are EIDE? and SCSI.
How easy is it to incorporate an Internal into a PC Motherboard? I think that my fear of opening the case would debar me from doing that and would therefore go for an external unit. But am I being too scared?
Any assurances forthcoming here?

thanks again for any help from anyone reading this.
cheers
Eddie



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As I mentioned to Eddie at the PSR Styles Group, CompUSA is selling a Memorex stand alone (external) USB CD burner for $100 (after rebate) !!!!

Bob

Sorry Bob, I don't think you mentioned it, maybe it was to someone else.
Thanks now nyway for the info, but I also wanted to know about the installation of an internal CDR to decide whether I should tackle it
cheers
Eddie



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Eddie,
installing an internal CDR is no big deal; basically you have to:
1- remove the sides of you PC cabinet
2- insert the CDR into one of the upper bays (it's very likely that you'll have to remove the plastic cover first)
3- connect a flat IDE cable to the CDR and (with the other end) to one of IDE sockets on the motherboard
4- connect a power cable to the CDR
5- (optional) connect the audio output of the CDR to your sound card.
6- tightly secure the CDR with four screws.

It's one of those things that are much easier with a picture or a drawing; all the PC magazines have a section on "How to do...", with plenty of pictures.
Email me if you need more details (I bet you will...)
Andrea

I've had bad experience with almost every Memorex product I've ever owned, including hardware, tapes, minidisks and CDs.
DonM

Thanks Andrea

You have now put my brain back into gear

I realise that I have asked a similar question in the past and found out that I do not have a spare bay

Looks like I will have to go for an external after all.

@ Don
Thanks for your impressions of Memorex.
I think that I will buy from Yamaha anyway, since I figure that they should be suitable for a Yamaha keyboard setup.
cheers
Eddie

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I would say go with the Yamaha CD recorder. Yamaha is the
worlds number 1 manufacturer of CDR drives. Their high speed
CDR blanks are very reliable. TDK is another great brand that
has consistently given me 100% satisfaction.

Tapas