Reddit mentions: The best blank cd-r discs

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I think youre being a little harsh on people who are only trying to help you out. Congrats on your thrift store vintage blank media purchase. (theres something I never thought Id say.) If you're looking to back up a music collection to hard copy for playback on CD players then you're probably going to need a pretty big stack of discs (depending on your music collection, it can get pretty expensive), its an older format and has very limited data capacity 700mb or 70 minutes of music I believe. Because the music is being stored digitally as opposed to analog there is really no difference between discs. Now you spent $10 on 20 discs where on amazon you could have spent $20 on 100 CD-R discs, so it turns out per disc to be much cheaper and you can store up to 6.8 gigs of data or 116 hours of music. AMAZON 100 CD-R $20 BTW another good thing about newer CD-Rs and DVD-Rs is MUCH MUCH faster writing speeds. CDRs now can manage up to 52x and DVDR can do about 16x, where as your thrift shop CDRs can probably only manage 4x

Now if you just want to back up music to hardcopy for archival purposes (to be copied back to a computer at a later date, in case of hard drive failure) then DVD-R is definitely the way to go. 100 DVD-R $22 now you can store 470 gigs of data, which is probably more than enough to back up your entire music library Im sure at only a smaller increase in price that is still cheaper (per disc) than your vintage CD-Rs. If you're an audiophile with an extensive Lossless collection (fortunately for dead heads like me this is a rather easy thing to come by) then DVD-R will allow you to back up your music in fewer discs which would be much easier to handle.

I hope thats a detailed enough answer to help you make an informed decision on how to back up your media, and in the future please dont bite the heads off of people who are really only trying to help you out.

Hey! Happy early birthday! I'm feelin' great today too; it must be in the air! Anyway, I dunno if you have prime or not, but I'd love [these blank CD's] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00009WO51/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1TXT7ADV3OFZM&coliid=I1Q2XBFN4UGA4L) so I can burn some new ones before school starts back up! I love that the look like 7-inches but are actually CD's, but part of me feels like I'm cheating. :o

If you don't have prime, which I totally get, I'd love [this captive bead ring] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GRY46N0/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1TXT7ADV3OFZM&coliid=I5O2I87OHZQFI&psc=1) although I can't decide if it would look better in my septum or my cartilage, which I guess depends on how big the rose turns out to be.

How was warped!? My friend works booths there usually for our blood bank- I think she was there! Crazily enough her name is Chloe. :o

What are your birthday plans? How old will you be?

Taiyo Yuden. Are considered the best. There are a few different partners for TY but JVC is supposed to be the best version. But they are all speciality disc and not as easy to get as verbatim. For Standard consumer discs, verbatim are considered to be the best. Different media has different sweet spots on write speeds. Memorex CD-rs work just fine on the dreamcast on low burn speeds with a good burner. Just read up on how CD's are burned and it should help with figuring out read problems of back ups.

Oh, hot damn, that's a lot of books. I'll keep looking. I teach middle school (12/14) and a lot of those kids still Trick-or-treat. I'll report back in a bit with more for that age range.

Also, I know OTTOMH that they have all the Tarzan Novels. We could a solid set on one disc for adventure lovers.

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I've found some good ones and one that almost made me weep with joy.

Around the World in 80 days A classic, and this is even the deluxe junior edition.

Aesop's Fables I was read these in 1st grade and loved it.

The Fairy Books A set of books containing 420 of the best stories from all over the world.

Tarzan Like I said, a good portion of his Tarzan work is represented here.

A princess of Mars They have the set, but this is just the first one. This is the original scifi that set the stage for everything else.

The Jungle books 1 2 A little Kipling never hurts.

The Junior Classics Library This was like a classic stories encyclopedia. We had it when I was but a lad. I used to look at the old pictures in these before I could actually read and read them once I could. It's great to see them digital.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow It's Halloween. To leave this out would be a crime!

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I looked into it and I found a set of 100 700mb Sony writable disks for 17 bucks and 100 paper CD cases are only 4 bucks. So 100 disks for 20 bucks isn't terrible.

It can be very tricky to get PS1’s to recognize and boot burned discs. After a lot of trial and error, I found that getting Verbatim discs like this were working best for me:

Verbatim CDRs

I tried a few other brands with mixed success. Also the burn speed matters, the slower you can record the disc is better. I found an old CD burner on eBay and now can burn at 1x speed over USB.

So I had to invest a little bit into this combination but it’s working for me now.

You could also try slight adjusting the potentiometer on the laser to get burned CDs to read better on your PS1. Make sure to only adjust it in very small increments so that you don’t mess it up. There are some YouTube tutorials that could help.

I had some burning issues at first. I ended up using a better quality disk and haven't had a dud since. These are the best you can get. I bought Taiyo Yuden disks and have had excellent results. Get them now, because they have been discontinued.

I've been using Philips branded ones and never yet had a problem:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0000ATD1G/ref=twister_B0769YPSSN?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

This wasn't intentional, they just happened to be the brand I had in when I got my CD-i, it might just be coincidence that I've not had a coaster with them yet but I'm happy with them either way and you can get a spindle of a hundred pretty cheaply.

The 1st link is a little cheaper, but the 2nd I trust more. Looks like these have crept up a little in price. But the quality is worth it. —————

https://www.amazon.com/CMC-Pro-Powered-Technology-Silver/dp/B0014FYTHU/ref=pd_sim_23_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B0014FYTHU&pd_rd_r=306d3428-2c8b-11e9-91c7-79eddbe046cc&pd_rd_w=iS1F5&pd_rd_wg=iDKlx&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=FE92H5SFM2GFQ7CCR3W7&psc=1&refRID=FE92H5SFM2GFQ7CCR3W7 —————— https://www.amazon.com/CMC-Pro-Powered-Technology-100-Pack/dp/B01HFBO78W/ref=pd_cp_23_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01HFBO78W&pd_rd_r=a5954468-2c8b-11e9-b05b-55823f4364c8&pd_rd_w=YBJNb&pd_rd_wg=GCbQs&pf_rd_p=ef4dc990-a9ca-4945-ae0b-f8d549198ed6&pf_rd_r=979DB0SDYJ9Y49FAJN7B&psc=1&refRID=979DB0SDYJ9Y49FAJN7B

So do you recommend 1x/2x/4x?

As for CD-Rs, I've heard good things about verbatim datalifeplus made at Mitsubishi Chemical factory. More affordable than TY and every review on amazon says they're quality.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0001LS35W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_.BbzCbRRMTHJ7

> But he was only selling the CDs for basically cost at .25$ a piece- so it clearly wasn't a money grab.


Do the math, man, he made 28000 copies. (For instance) if he buys 280 packs of 100 of these blank disks, it would cost him (more or less) 4760 US$, selling each disk at .25c would make 7000 US$, it's 2240 US$ in profit. Sure that's nothing for a guy like him, but it's a lot considering he was using freely available and copyrighted software and a copyrighted logo to make the costumer believe it was a legit Microsoft product. And dude, it was 28000 copies!, that's a large counterfeit operation, not 10 or 20 spare backups like most IT guys do.

This was true at the time. Between then and the DVD-Rs catching on in popularity, 900MB CDs have been created to replace the old 650MB CDs: https://www.amazon.com/CD-R-100-Min-MediaRange-Cakebox/dp/B000R4LZ3A

So at most a GD-ROM has 200MB more (20%) than what the CD can handle, instead of 650MB more (100%), so you don't have to deal with god awful compression and use a slightly less aggressive one. Not to mention, most DC games did not utilize the entirety of the GD-ROM, so the pirated copy did not suffer in any way - which holds true even for the 650MB CDs.

Just take your image, convert it to CHD (removes all of the padding from the end of the image), and if it's less than 900MB in size - use Alcohol 120% to burn it to your CD in MIL-CD format. That's all, and it works for the vast majority of games.

1. Clean it carefully with Isopropyl and Qtip on the lens.
   
   
   
2. Purchase this for saving your game progress - https://stoneagegamer.com/ultra-cd-backup-ram-cart-sega-cd-mega-cd.html#product-reviews
   
   
   
3. Gonna need to play those "homebrews" -- https://www.amazon.com/Taiyo-Yuden-Silver-Lacquer-Plastic/dp/B007R6B6FI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522094170&sr=8-1&keywords=taiyo+yuden+cd-r&dpID=516jkTk4PEL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
   
   
   
4. Google for Mega or PD access.

People keep spewing this bullshit. Are people not aware you can look stuff up?? Come on man, just look this stuff up before you say it.

Do a quick google search. Find a media duplication company that does both:

duplication.ca: CDs $970 for 1000, $1890 for the equivalent in cassettes. Tapes are double the price.

Feel free to search all you want, every company is going to be roughly the same.


But lets say those people want a DIY approach.... CDs are less than 1/4 the cost of tapes:

100 blank tapes ($79) + 100 tape cases ($96) puts tapes at $1.75 each to produce.

100 ink jet printable CDs ($19) 100 pack of CD jewel cases ($19) puts CDs at $.38 each to produce.

It is a pain-in-the-ass. Here's how it works: say you buy (or need to buy) a bunch of a certain product like CD-Rs. That spindle of 100 Verbatim discs costs $29.99 so you call your account manager and they "discount" the price to $19 because you're such a good customer.

...or you can just buy it even cheaper on Amazon for $17 without any hassle!

The company I work for uses Staples Advantage because it's "simplier." I have no idea why.

Source:
http://www.staples.com/Verbatim-CD-R-80MIN-700MB-52X-Branded-100pk-Spindle/product_479609
http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Minute-Branded-Recordable-Disc/dp/B003ZDNZSI/

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She could try one of these. And buy her a stack of these and maybe a bunch of these, too. Tell her they take up a lot less room than the tapes and she can still label the cases. Maybe you can eventually get her to just connect a hard drive to her dvr and tell her it's still essentially a like physical copy, just on a more compact unit. If not, hopefully she's still happy with the dvd recorder.

I have some of these. A 10 pack cost about $6 at Best Buy and Office Max.

Each pack comes with 5 colors.

http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-94587-Digital-50-Disc-Spindle/dp/B0000DD7OH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311909366&sr=8-1

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Verbatim+-+Digital+Vinyl+10-Pack+52x+CD-R+Disc+Blister/9220817.p?id=1218061849700&skuId=9220817&st=vinyl%20cd-r&cp=1&lp=5

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Verbatim+-+50-Pack+52x+Digital+Vinyl+CD-R+Disc+Spindle/5394101.p?id=1051826235854&skuId=5394101&st=vinyl%20cd-r&cp=1&lp=4

I read that elsewhere as well. But would it fix the issue I'm having?


These guys, right?


I'd rather get a 10 pack, but looks like they only sell the 100 pack.

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https://www.amazon.com/CMC-Pro-Powered-Technology-100-Pack/dp/B01HFBO78W/

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also on amazon: 100x blank disks for $16

something doesnt add up here...

The real hard part is finding one without writing. verbatim blank cd gold grade. Okay so this is new for me after working in It and with computers since I was a child I have never run into searching for archival CD-R's but it seems like that is exactly what that Half-Life disc is written on. They are expensive. Here are done with no writing but I can't find just one.

Edit2: it seems like the cheap ones have logos printed on them. If you don't mind it not being functional you could print on the read side and frame it face side to the wall. It would look right but not function.

You can grab them over at Amazon. In before, nice one Verbatim employee.

I don't know anything about labels so I won't even go there. But just taking a quick scan on amazon, Vessels by Twenty-one Pilots, Froot by Marina and the Diamonds, and Nevermind by Nirvana are all cheaper on CD than cassette.

Further, if we're talking about the DIY scene, a box of ten type II cassettes costs 27.95 USD, a box of ten type I cassettes costs 20.50 USD, while a 100 pack of CD-Rs costs 16.47 USD. So as far as I can tell, buying and selling music on cassette is significantly more expensive than CDs.

Edit: Formatting.

I used my soft modded Wii, but I know that it is possible to mod your GameCube to play pocket CD-R's but I am not sure what you need in order to do so.

I'm using Verbatim yeah, these in particular: Verbatim 43432 - Pack de 25 CD-R https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0006BC3DK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_xC80BbBPG684D

As for the Dreamcast revision number, I don't really see it, maybe cause it's japanese? The only information i can give its that it is a MODEL No.HTK-3000 UGO DENSHI.

I looked for it for a while and i couldn't see it anywhere.

They do make CDs that look like vinyl if you decide to go this route.

Totally correct, except for artist like The Black Keys that are very strict analog only guys.

But I was referring to finding this https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Digital-Multicolor-Spindle-94488/dp/B00009WO51

Yep: https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DataLife-Density-Microdisks-Diskettes/dp/B002MBPJNS

All the reviews are even from the last couple of years.

Also, for a newer storage method: https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Surface-100-Disc-Spindle-94712/dp/B0001LR1KU

Well, he only wants to put a book on it, so storage size isn't a concern as books are small. CD-Roms are cheap so you can buy literally 100 CD-Roms for $16.47.

I have doubts the "grooves" in that CD contain music.

I actually have seen CDRs for sale in small quantities that have the label side stamped to look like a vinyl record, grooves and all.

https://smile.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-Portable-External-GP65NB60/dp/B00ODDE33U/

https://smile.amazon.com/Verbatim-CD-R-700MB-Minute-Recordable/dp/B003ZDNZSI/

That drive will burn either CDs or DVDs, but you need different physical disks as your starter blanks.

And..

https://www.amazon.com/CD-R-100-Min-MediaRange-Cakebox/dp/B000R4LZ3A

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Verbatim-87410-MF2HD-Inch-MBDiskettes/dp/B0000511BI/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1501851327&sr=8-4&keywords=floppy+disk

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Verbatim-43432-25-pack-Optical-Media-x/dp/B0006BC3DK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501851209&sr=8-1&keywords=blank+cd

An extra 90 CDs for 50p more, not to mention they're 700MB compared to 1.44.

[JVC Taiyo Yuden Silver Lacquer 52X CD-R Media 100 Pack in Plastic Wrap] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007R6B6FI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_76sZPZwmYy1lC)

Buy them here

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Verbatim+-+50-Pack+52x+Digital+Vinyl+CD-R+Disc+Spindle/5394101.p?id=1051826235854&skuId=5394101&st=vinyl%20cd-r&cp=1&lp=4

http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-94587-Digital-50-Disc-Spindle/dp/B0000DD7OH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311909366&sr=8-1

Mini-cds give you the ease of dealing with cds along with their low cost with a little bit of the pizazz of being just a little to the side of normal.

https://www.amazon.com/Memorex-Minute-Mini-Discs-50-Pack-Spindle/dp/B00005NHGP/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1497915603&sr=8-7&keywords=mini+cd-r

that sort of thing. It makes up for CDs not quite being retro by being a little weird.

I use these Taiyo Yuden CDRs from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HFBO78W Burning with LiquidCD https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/19994/liquidcd on my old iMac's slowest speed (8x i think). No issues so far.

Either a bad dump or bad blank discs. I saw you mentioned Verbatim which are generally low quality discs and will have trouble streaming audio and data to your Saturn.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007R6B6FI/

These are the only discs I've come across that work on both the Saturn and Sega CD with zero issues. There is another that looks similar by CMC that has issues. Be sure it's JVC Taiyo Yuden.