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- Clean stubborn dirt and foreign substances with 99% isopropyl alcohol
or 99% methyl alcohol (methanol). Apply the cleaner to the cloth,
then rub the cloth across the disc, taking care not to get any fluid
on the label side of the disc. Some labels or coatings may not react
well with alcohol.
- Do not bend the disc. Flexing the disc can cause stress patterns to
form in the polycarbonate, and if you stretch it far enough you might
start to deform the reflective and recording layers. Take care when
pulling discs out of tight jewel cases.
- Do not expose the disc to rapid changes in temperature or humidity.
- Use quality discs from an experienced manufacturer. Low-quality
discs will degrade quickly, even under ideal conditions.
A temperature between 20C (68F) and 4C (39F) with a relative humidity of
20-50% is recommended. Before you go stuffing all of your discs in the
refrigerator, make note of the fact that rapid changes in temperature and
humidity can be harmful. You would need to let your discs slowly come up
to room temperature before placing them in a CD player. Discs that are
accessed frequently should be stored in an environment similar to the one
in which they will be played.
Subject: [7-28] What causes the rainbow effect when looking at the data side?
(2004/03/03)
A CD has a single spiral track, each revolution of which is separated by 1.6
microns on a 74-minute disc (less on higher-capacity discs). The mirrored
"grooves" act as a reflection diffraction grating, causing interference
patterns in the reflected light.
Some related web sites:
- http://science.howstuffworks.com/question52.htm
- http://www.u.arizona.edu/~tagin/Report.html
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Subject: [8] Net Resources and Vendor Lists
(1998/04/06)
Some of these sites have both technical information and product sales;
they're listed twice.
The CD-Info bibliography at http://www.cd-info.com/CDIC/Bibliography.html
is also worth checking out.
Subject: [8-1] Information resources
(2000/04/03)
Some useful web pages. Don't forget about the newsgroups, listed in
section (0-5).
http://www.mrichter.com/
Mike Richter's collection of files and URLs related to CD-R.
http://www.cdpage.com/
Lots of good stuff, including a library of technical articles.
http://www.cd-info.com/
Information about CDs and CD-Rs, especially technology and industry
stuff.
http://www.osta.org/
Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA); see the CD-R Q&A doc
at http://www.osta.org/technology/cdqa.htm.
http://www.roxio.com/
Lots of useful information on CD-R.
http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/cdrecord.htm
Some practical advice and experiences with CD-R, including a lengthy
discussion on transferring audio recordings from other sources.
http://www.cinram.com/techlibrary/main.html
Cinram's (was Disc Manufacturing, Inc.'s) technical library. Used
to have more stuff. A few articles remain.
http://www.cds.com/
Media, duplicators, replication services.
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/cdrom/faq
Information and FAQs from the alt.cd-rom group.
http://www.hsv.tis.net/disc/
Technical info.
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~erick205/Papers/paper.html
Highly technical paper on CDs.
http://www.ee.washington.edu/conselec/CE/kuhn/cdaudio/95x6.htm
Technical discussion of CD construction and laser tracking.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/cd.htm
Very nice explanation of how CDs work.
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~xi/hp4020i.htm
Site dedicated to the HP4020i.
http://www.octave.com/library.html
A bunch of good stuff.
http://music.digidesign.com/html/faqs/faqmlcd.html
FAQ for MasterList CD. Has some interesting notes.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/6665/jdlnet_jvc_cd-r.html
A collection of information and helpful hints for new users in
general and JVC XR-W2010 users in particular.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/6893/
Information on CDD2600 and CDD3610 recorders.
http://www.orangeforum.or.jp/english/
The "Orange Forum" web page. (CD-R is "Orange Book".) Very artistic.
http://www.digido.com/
A few articles on various subjects relating to studio-quality audio
recording.
http://www.hrrc.org/
Home Recording Rights Coalition (some good legal stuff).
http://www.mscience.com/
The Media Sciences web site; good technical info.
http://www.bithose.com/serfaq/REPAIR/F_cdfaq.html
CD-ROM section of the Repair FAQ (http://www.repairfaq.org/). Lots
of good technical info on CD stuff, as well as how to fix things
when they break.
http://www.cdmediaworld.com/
Several articles on CD-R (a/k/a www.esware.net/empire/hardware).
http://www.cdrwcentral.com/
News and information on CD recording.
http://www.disctronics.co.uk/cdref/cdmain.htm
Some useful info about CD-R.
http://www.venco.com.pl/~bartkey/CDR/
General CD-R info, in Polish.
Subject: [8-2] Magazines and other publications
(1998/07/06)
http://www.emediapro.com/
Home of EMedia Professional, formerly CD-ROM Professional. Some
articles are available online.
http://www.kipinet.com/
Several publications which may be of interest.
http://www.cd-webstore.com/
Home of two online trade publications, "Burning Issues" and "Pressing On".
Subject: [8-3] Net.vendors
(2004/03/29)
NOTE: this should not be considered an endorsement of these vendors.
No attempt has been made to verify the quality of products or service you
will receive. This list is provided as a convenience. Dead links are
occasionally weeded out.
http://www.google.com/froogle/
Search for products, view results sorted by price.
http://www.pricewatch.com/
Street price search engine.
http://www.compuplus.com/
Hardware and media.
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/msdos/cdrom/
Freeware and shareware utilities.
http://www.cdroutlet.com/
Media.
http://www.cds.com/
Hardware and software.
http://www.cddimensions.com/
Media and some high-end hardware like networked CD-R jukeboxes.
http://www.compusa.com/
CompUSA's online catalog. Hardware and media.
http://www.oneoffcd.com/
One-off CDs and CD reproduction; also hardware, software, and media.
http://www.microtech.com/
CD-R duplication hardware and services.
http://www.rimage.com/
CD-R duplication hardware and services.
http://www.nycd.com/ (formerly superduperdisc.com)
CD replication, specializing in same-day service.
http://www.prosourcesales.com/
Media, hardware, and oft-recommended CD labels.
http://www.octave.com/
Hardware (including duplicators), software, and media.
http://www.microboards.com/
Hardware (including duplicators), software, and media.
http://www.mediatechnics.com/
CD-R duplication hardware and services.
http://www.pasystems.be/
Hardware and media.
http://www.mediasupply.com/
Media.
http://www.cdw.com/
Hardware and media.
http://www.pcconnection.com/
Hardware and media.
http://www.cmpexpress.com/
Hardware and media.
http://www.essential-data.com/
Hardware, software, and media.
http://www.americal.com/
Hardware and media.
http://www.cdr4less.com/
Media.
http://www.blankmedia.com/
Media.
http://www.cascade-media.net/
Media and hardware.
http://www.roxio.com/en/products/
Roxio's online store.
http://www.xdr2.com/
Media and jewel cases.
http://www.bagsunlimited.com/
Bags Unlimited; carries a remarkable variety of CD envelopes and cases.
http://www.casealliance.com
CD envelopes and cases.
http://www.digitalcdr.com/
Media, as well as production and duplication services.
http://www.ashbyind.com/
CD-R duplication services, equipment, and media.
http://www.ngfdigital.com/
CD-R duplication services, equipment, and media.
http://www.majorsys.com/
CD-R and DVD-R duplication hardware, software, and accessories.
http://www.blankshop.co.uk/
Media.
http://www.ccisound.com/
Hardware and media (emphasis on stand-alone audio equipment).
http://www.cd-writer.com/
Hardware and media.
http://www.marcan.com/
Duplicating equipment and services.
http://www.primera.com/
CD-R and DVD-R printing and duplication systems.
http://www.solstice-inc.com/
CD-R and DVD-R printing and duplication systems.
http://www.vcdtransfer.com/
Transfer video tape to VideoCD.
http://www.cdrmania.net/
Labels, clip art, and label software.
http://www.datadirectinc.com/
Media, labels, printers, supplies, duplication equipment.
http://www.tapeonline.com/
Media.
http://dvd-r.safewebshop.com/
Media.
http://mmore.com/
Media.
http://worldlabel.com/
Lots of labels.
http://www.shoponlinelabels.com/
Labels, labels, and more labels.
http://www.cd-lab.com
CD/CD-R duplication, blank media, duplication equipment.
Subject: [8-4] News sources & mailing lists
(2003/11/29)
Sources for current news on subjects relevant to CD recording. These
sites are updated daily, with news, product reviews, and software update
notices.
- http://www.cdfreaks.com/
- http://www.cdmediaworld.com/
- http://www.cdrinfo.com/
- http://www.cdrwcentral.com/
- http://www.cd-rw.com/
- http://www.cdr-zone.com/
A mailing list for CD-R users:
- http://www.cdrcentral.co.uk/ (Yahoo! groups "advanced_cdr")
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Subject: [9] Contributors
(2003/07/08)
Much of the information contained in this FAQ was culled from the Usenet
newsgroups comp.publish.cdrom.* and the WWW sites mentioned in the previous
sections. All of the contents, except for a few items in "double quotes",
is original material written by Andy McFadden.
Please remember that the author is NOT a CD-R expert, so sending him mail
won't get you very far. Please *post* questions to comp.publish.cdrom.*.
The CD-Recordable FAQ was first posted to Usenet on March 2nd, 1996, and
was made available in HTML form on www.cd-info.com on March 24th, 1996.
It moved to www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/ on May 28th, 1998, and moved again
to its current home on www.cdrfaq.org on March 3rd, 2001.
This FAQ was written by:
Andy McFadden http://www.fadden.com/
With a great deal of help on the first several drafts from:
Katherine Cochrane http://www.cd-info.com/
Hal Rottenberg hal_rottenberg@---
Georges Brown Georges@---
And information and suggestions -- often in the form of posts to
comp.publish.cdrom.{hardware,software,multimedia} -- from:
[ Due to spammers, e-mail addresses are truncated. ]
Decius Aiacus decius_aiacus@---
Robert M. Albrecht romal@---
Alecto alecto@---
David Anderson C270@---
Pierre-Yves Andri PierreYves.Andri@---
Jeff Arnold jarnold@---
Jeff Aspinall aspinall@---
Evil Azrael evil_azrael@---
Michael Battilana mcb@---
Mario Diéguez B. hidrosan@---
Clive Backham clive@---
Brian Barth BrianBarth@---
Dave Bayer bayer@---
Alex Bell abell@---
Yves Belle-Isle BelY@---
Ricardo Martinez Benesenes Ricardo.Martinez-Benesenes@---
Dennis Benjamin ocms0001@---
Mathieu Besson Mathieu.Besson@---
Blaine blam1@---
Jim Blietz entexse@---
Peter 'Pedro' Blum peter@---
Patrick Boen patrick.boen@---
Robert R. Boerner, Jr. bob973@---
Eric Jan van den Bogaard bogaard@---
Axel Booltink ab@---
Michael Borowiec mikebo@---
David Bouw bouw@---
Scott Bracken scott@---
Sune Bredahl sjn@---
Peter Broadbent bent@---
Simon Brownlee simon.brownlee@---
Craig Burgess craigb@---
Frans de Calonne fdecalonne@---
Chris Cant chris@---
Mirco Caramori mirco@---
Mark Carde mcarde@---
Juan Carlos ackman@---
Carter Duplicator@---
Brian D. Chambers bucknife@---
Kenneth Chen lore@---
Michel Cherbuliez cherbu@---
Andrew Chiang andrewc@---
Sean Christy seanchr@---
Dave Chung dtchung@---
Kevin Clark clark@---
Christophe CLERC-RENAUD clerc@---
Carlos Coimbra ccoimbra@---
Jef Collin Jef.Collin@---
Daniel Courville courville.daniel@---
Kevin Coyle kmcoyle@---
Gary Crosby gacrosby@---
John Daly jdaly@---
datta datta@---
Gary Davis gdavis@---
Matthew Day mtday@---
Paul DeFilippo bruttium@---
Peter DiCamillo peter@---
Steven M. Dietz steve@---
Mike Dijkema m.dijkema@---
Kurt Dommermuth kurtz@---
Hans Driessen marcomlo.pkm@---
Barry Drodge bdrodge@---
Bob Drzyzgula bob@---
Russell Duffy rad@---
Pierre Duhem duhem@---
Mark J. Dulcey mark@---
Cydrek Dysan cdysan@---
Lunatic E'Sex Luny@---
Toerless Eckert Toerless.Eckert@---
Erik Eckhardt erik@---
Jonathan Edelson winnie@---
Heiko Eissfeldt heiko@---
Daniel Elroi audndani@---
Steve Enzer enzer@---
Grant Erickson eric0139@---
Sam Etler etler@---
Martin Evans MARTIN@---
Voytek Eymont voytek@---
Frank Feder fwfeder@---
Helen Feng wanderer@---
Joel Finkle jjfink@---
Rob Foster rfoster@---
Joe T. Fountain gorjoe@---
Oliver Friedman oliverfriedman@---
Emile Gardette egardett@---
E. Goldberg earl@---
Gerry Goodrich gogood@---
Colin Gordon gordonc@---
Jac Goudsmit http://www.xs4all.nl/~jacg/dcc-faq.html
Gary E. Grant ggrant@---
grasser grasser@---
Patrick Green patrick@---
Richard Green srcemag@---
Dave Grimes dgrimes@---
Ron Gustavson rongus@---
Gregory F. Haas gregh@---
Joe Hall phroget@---
Steven Duntley Halpape UserNAme@---
Dan Hamilton danh@---
Rich Hanson richard.hanson@---
Russ Harper topquark@---
Chris Harrison c-harry@---
Matt Hartley hartlw@---
Mike Harvey mharvey@---
Robert Hedges rhhedgz1@---
Marc Herbert Marc.Herbert@---
Herman Hillebrand hermanh@---
Anders Holm anders.holm.1965@---
Steve Holzworth sch@---
Vincent van't Hoog hoog@---
John J. Hook jjh@---
Dan Hopper ku4nf-N0SPAM@---
Frank Huberty frank@---
M. H. mhulden@---
Malcolm Humes mal@---
Todd R Hustrulid Todd.R.Hustrulid-1@---
Chris Ice chris.ice@---
Kristof Indeherberge kristof.indeherberge@---
Andrea Invernizzi ainvernizzi@---
Jadiel jadiel@---
Ben Jenkins bjenkins@---
Patrick Jeski pjeski@---
JMC j_mc3@---
Harri Johansson harri.johansson@---
Curt Johnson cjohnson@---
Arnold Jones arnold@---
Bryan Jones siz1@---
HK hk@---
Oliver Kastl http://elby.ch/
Tapio Keihanen dio@---
Roger A. Kendall kendall@---
Steve Kennedy prografx@---
Jorg Kennis jorg@---
Roger Kirk rkirk@---
Richard Kiss richard@---
Peter van Klaveren Peter.van.Klaveren@---
Lyle Knox laknox@---
Jerry Kohoutek jerryk@---
Adrie Koolen adrie@---
pieter korremans pieterkorremans@---
Steven A. Kortze skortze@---
Alexander S. Kosiorek alex_audio@---
James Krainock jamesk@---
Bernard Lang lang@---
Rick Langston Rick.Langston@---
Nils Emil P. Larsen Peter_Larsen@---
William Leech William@---
Matthew Leeds mleeds@---
Greg Legowski gregleg@---
Lemarcha lemarcha@---
J. Russell Lemon Lemon.J.Russell@---
Jim Leodidis osa@---
Barry Libenson barryl@---
Marc van Lierop marcvl@---
Wee-Keong LIM keong@---
Linda linda@---
George Lindholm lindholm@---
Mike Linhart mlinhart@---
Torbjörn Lindgren tl@---
John Lodge johnlodge@---
Chris HP Lovecraft tmservo@---
nelson luc nelson_luc@---
Jean-Paul Maas jmaa@---
Maki maki@---
Nathan Manlove nate@---
Mark fingers@---
Markie markie#the@---
Bob Martin rtm@---
John Marvin jsm@---
Jean-Francois Masse jfmasse@---
Jonathan Austin Maton jmaton@---
Mats mats@---
Matthew MTDay@---
Anthony McCarthy anthony@---
Doug McFadyen dmcfadye@---
Dawn Messerly dawn#_@---
Michel Milano mmilano@---
Gene Miller gmiller@---
Carlos Miranda resal1719@--
Hans Mons Hans.Mons@---
Patrick Morris patrick.morris@---
Ken Moss kmoss@---
F.Mouta fernando.mouta@---
Brian Mullen mullen@---
John Navas JNavas@---
Brandon Navra navra@---
Gordon Neault gordo-x@---
Paul Newson ienewson@---
James Nichols jbn@---
Niderost, B.U. niderost@---
Lou Nigro buster@---
Jon nobody nobody@---
Alexander Noe' alexander.noe@---
Nick Norton Nick@---
Jonathan Oei joei@---
Ross Orr rossorr@---
David Oseas doseas@---
palomaki palomaki@---
Dana Parker danapark@---
Jeff Pearson lumpofcoal@---
Reto A. Pergher dzkrper@---
Chris Petersen cpeterse@---
Matthias Petofalvi mpetofal@---
Jason Petrait petrait@---
Phred ppnerk@---
Dave Platt dplatt@---
Jaap v.d. Pol jaap.van.de.pol@---
Kevin Purdy kpurdy@---
Frank Racis racis@---
Ron Reaugh Ron-Reaugh@---
Paul Reeves reeves@---
Reinhart Lasernut23@---
Phillip A. Remaker remaker@---
Peter Richardson pk.r@---
Rick Richardson rick@---
Mike Richter mrichter@---
Jim Riggs jriggs@---
Stephanie Roberson Thursday@---
Robert Rolf Robert.Rolf@---
Danny Roos mayday@---
Meelis Roos mroos@---
Tonko de Rooy tderooy@---
Paul Rubin phr@---
Michael Rubin mickster@---
Joost Ruijsch j.ruijsch@---
Road Runner rmiller2@---
Aaron Sakovich sakovich@---
Giuseppe Salza gsalza@---
Torsten Sander ints@---
Nick Sayer nsayer@---
John Schlichther jschlic1@---
Angela Schmidt Angela.Schmidt@---
Jörg Schilling schilling@---
Bertel Schmitt bschmitt@---
Mike "NO UCE" S. s_c_h_u_s_t_e_r_@---
Barbara Severance digihorse@---
Chris Severance severach@---
Jason Shannon Jason.Shannon@---
Guy Shavitt guy-s@---
Shawn shawnl@---
Steve Sheppard steve@---
Brett Sherris bsherris@---
Aron Siegel vinylm@---
J. Robert Sims, III robsims@---
Keith Sklower sklower@---
RE Smallwood robert.smallwood@---
Bart Smith BartSmith@---
Calum Smith cbsmith@---
Eric Smith eric@---
Greg Smith gsmith@---
Tim Smith tzs@---
John Smyth xy3@---
Henry Soenarko soenarko@---
Guy G. Sotomayor, Jr. ggs@---
Dave Souza souza@---
Spalding spalding@---
Ziv Speiser xor@---
Jeff and Mary Spencer spencer@---
Startide startide@---
Don Sterner dsterner1@---
Jon Stewart jstewart@---
Deirdre' Straughan deirdre_straughan@---
Kees Stravers pb0aia@---
Gregg Strawbridge audubon@---
Jan Strous jan@---
Ron Stuurman rons@---
Sybren S.J.Hettinga@---
Nagy Szabolcs nagysz@---
Bob Talbert btalbert@---
Johann Taucher Johann.Taucher@---
Thomas Tempelmann thomas_tempelmann@---
Paula Terrell paula@---
John Tessier support@---
tethys tethys@---
Gregory Theulings marcomlo.pkm@---
Kevin Patrick Thibedeau thibedek@---
Lorin Thwaits lthwaits@---
Hock Toh transx@---
Martin Trautmann traut@---
tRIs sis5264@---
Tung Cheng Tsai thlx@---
Louis Tumbao tumbao@---
Dave Ulmer david_ulmer@---
Rich Unger rbu1@---
Doug V. dutchman@---
S Valdez svaldez@---
Chris Valentine c.p.valentine@---
Vo, Charles H. st3wr@---
Greg Volk gvolk@---
Gilles Vollant 100144.2636@---
Jon Wadelton eden@---
Andreas Walfort andreas.walfort@---
Kevin J. Walsh Walsh@---
Michael Walker mwalker@---
Mark Warbington markoni@---
Stephen Warren swarren@---
Carl Weaver ckw@---
Gerald E. Weber geweber@---
Lauren Weinstein lauren@---
Jerome H. Whelan whelanj@---
Royce White rwhite@---
James B. Wilkinson jimmy@---
Nic Wilson nicw@---
Julien Wolf Julien.Wolf@---
Klaus Woltereck kw42@---
Roy Worthington royw@---
Joachim Worringen zdv181@---
Deidra Young D.Young@---
Yvon yvonus@---
Stefek Zaba s@---
Gero Zahn gero@---
Oliver Zechlin oliver.zechlin@---
Zohar Ziv zziv@---
OSTA CD-R Q&A http://www.osta.org/
My humble apologies to anyone I've omitted. ++ATM 20040415
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