Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 6, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press March 2001 All dry cleaning technology of i m 5 cd Lingo when the Coda compact Dis digital audio hit the Market in not Only did Dat Transfer technology virtually change so did the Here Are some Basic terms that you May want to download into your memory Bank i Cdr Short for cars Are worm write read multiple cars cant be recorded i Cdr a draws can be erased and most units will play both Cdr used to be called de i mp3 stands for motion picture experts group mpg version audio layer translated its a file format that compresses audio files into smaller units makes them easier to Transfer into your note mp2 files Are a less Complex encoding system than but Are larger in size and May be slower to i was windows audio was files can be Large because their contents Are not i Wmk windows Media audio like an this file format compresses digital audio files into smaller file sizes than the Standard file format used on most cd i Ripper software that copies music from a cd on to a computers hard after a cd is the resulting was files need to be converted by an encoder into mp3 i nitrate measures the sound Quality in of a digital audio file or the higher the the better sounding the common nitrate for mp3filesis128kps yields neared i Ping a measure of time in milliseconds that it takes for one computer to Send something to another in most the lower the the closer the computers Are and the faster the data is shared Between i streaming refers to playing audio or video directly from the internet without downloading to a computers hard b3 editor Julian Rachey 6977235 Bye Bye compact disc burners Are All the rage its just amazing the amount of no matter what it that you can store on the Small cd format it May be called mature but compact disc burners have never been a hotter just ask the higher ups at the online music swapping service that allows an estimated 40 million cd burning North americans to download music at no Napster recently dangled a Multi million Dollar settlement Carrot and subscription plan before recording companies in an attempt to diffuse copyright infringement once a pricey computer Addon favoured by diehard audiophiles and radio cd burners Are pushing cassette players and their tapes into the delete and its All happened in the last five says John new Media specialist with Advance this is definitely not new but sales Are very Strong right More people Are finding cd Burner applications useful to whether its to store Large amounts of com Puter and digital data or to Cre ate audio he it Hast Hurt that prices of burners have been dropping As the demand he cd burners can Start at around depending on whether you want an internal one built right into your computer or an external the move has been but Consumers Are buying cd burners to replace cumbersome cassette says Dan president of creative that Surprise he adds go into any retail outlet and compare the number of compact discs that Are on the shelves with the number of cassette cassette decks Arent that far off id put them in the dead category for five years they dominated the Market we used to carry More than 25 different models but today most manufacturers have removed the cassette category from their product he so Why Are North americans burning up a storm cd burners facilitate the Transfer and com pression of Large digital audio and visual computer files Between once files have been translated into a burnable language simply insert the Correct Type of cd into the burners Slot and Presto you can interact with the newest share the hottest tunes with friends or peruse those special Holiday its easy to do the cd format has huge storage capacity with controversial audio Down Load Sites such As Napster providing music for with All the free tunes they can the burning Public gets the ultimate customization expert its just amazing the amount of no mat Ter what it that you can store on the Small cd for Gail Cabana coldwell Lettys Kyle president of the Winnipeg hearing discovered cd burning he about two years he needed to find a Way to work on Large company files at his Home desktop com a burners file compression along with High Speed internet proved to be the tick its he i can Send files from work before i leave the building and by the time i drive across town to everything is but once a Friend introduced him to online music Hes been burning like crazy for the last six Mckenzie currently has an estimated tunes either stored on his Home computers hard drive or on and plans to Burn images from his Digi Tal camera on to a Cdr to create a family digital photo As Hes discovered audio Small receivers the size of an answering machine that pick up a signal transmitted from his computer and play any of his burned musical now that really says who plans to put an audio station on his deck this theres no extra speakers or wires or getting up to change i think eventually this sort of thing will do away with lots of the electronics in a i admit that Ive fallen hard into the music part of but this technology has totally rejuvenated my interest in i think that the Case with lots of it also helped me refund and keep lost music id forgotten its Tough when you think youre losing one of your passions now you dont have while Pura agrees that Many Consumers use Burner technology to download audio or to Back up their com Puter systems program More people Are getting into digital video he Pura predicts that the new credit car sized Droms will eventually replace the traditional business adding that there a More flexible Way to distribute info and Market when the technology is changing As fast As file downloading and compressing newbies May not know quite where to those in the know agree decide what you want to use the Burner for and buy one from a reputable decide if youre going internal or says make sure the unit complements your existing i always Tell people that you can buy Burn ers but then if something goes wrong or you need its not As easy to get and dont Overlook sound says not All cd burners Are created just like not All cd players Are the you should pay attention to the playback sound Quality of the too Many people think that speakers Are the dominant Factor in sound Quality there the source component Dic tates the end Gail Caban coldwell can be reached at com Burner basics can i use old cd that in tired of in my cd Burner in a nutshell theres a big Dif Ference Between cd and cars or cd bought from a music store Are pressed from a Mold there usually Silver in cars Are burned with a laser there often Gold or Blue in there also less tolerant of extreme tempera Ture and Sun and More susceptible to physical you cant record on pressed cd ditto for the Ismail Freebie you need Blank cars or How much can one of these cd hold quite a Cdr Blanks hold about 74 minutes of audio or 650 my of some will hold 80 minutes Worth of audio or 700 what do the numbers on a cd Burner mean burners usually have three num one represents the Speed of writing How fast the Burner will what you want to store the higher the the faster the another number usually 4 or 8 indicates the Speed of rewriting How fast the Burner records Over while the third number represents the read Speed important to gamers usually a 32 spin or High translation an 8 x 4 x 32 Burner should be a Allaround on didst get Rich just by sitting on your c when it comes to maintaining you cant sit idly for Over 30 the principals at Goodman private wealth management have been helping canadians with assets of Over 2 million to actively manage All their financial and estate planning with our focus on the preservation and tax efficient Long term growth of your we make sure that your wealth continues to even if you dont have Call Val at 2042546480 or email at for wealth management t ;