My hard drive is getting full and instead of buying another hard drive I am just going transfer all my mp3 files to cd-r's(alot cheaper). My question is - Is there some special process that I should know about to do this so I don't loose any information in the transfer? For instance, when you rip a cd to hard drive it is best to use EAC so it reads the wave file as accurate as possible. What about when you copy an mp3 file from cd-r back to the hard drive? Is it possible to get syn errors, read errors, ect. even though it is an mp3?

-Darin
:alien:

The process depend on whether you want to archive your MP3s (not wise, there are better formats for archiving) or you want to make an MP3 CD to play on DVD players, or MP3 CD players such as iRiver's SlimX or to play them on your PC (and make some room on your hard drive).
If you want to archive you should .RAR (compress) your files with "error recovery" set on at least 10%. You should .RAR them as folders, not individually so you can keep long filenames. This way the chances of getting your data damaged are very little (talking about CD wear-and-tear).
If you want to listen to them on other MP3-playing devices or on your PC, you should burn them unchanged. I suggest using burnatonce since it can keep your long filenames.
Copying them BACK to your hard drive does not require any special software to do so, the Explorer is just fine. There is no risk of sync errors or anything. You do not need anything like EAC (and there isn't anything)

Hi! Can you tell me more about this?
Do you mean that you can burn files and folders with more than 64 chars?
Is this a special feature of BAO, or it can works also using Nero?

If you use the "Romeo" file system, you can have up to 128 character filenames. Unfortunately, I think this file system is only readable on Windows systems (unless a Linux version has been developed, which wouldn't surprise me at all).

Do you think this is compatible with some hardware players?

Romeo FS is not. But UDF (basically, that is the DVD file format) can be used on CD-Rs for hardware players. It has lots of room for lengthy filenames.

I don't know all the ins and outs of this, I'm very new to it myself. But I recently asked in some other thread about this: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....5&t=7472&hl=udf

Edit: Oh, also check the many threads here about CD-Rs not being good as archival media. Since you're not using them as backup only, but want to erase files from your harddisk, you might want to burn to two CD-Rs...

Interesting features you can use when cd mastering a data disc (see recent cdrecord, or a gui like burnatonce):

ISO Level 2 "Allow 31 ISO character filenames"
ISO9660:1999 "207 characters, no folder limit"
Relax ISO9660 "Allow all characters for ISO9660"
Joliet Names "Generate Joliet directory records"
Long Joliet Names "Allow 103 character Joliet filenames"
Relocate Folders "Use deep directory folder relocation for ISO9660"
Rock Ridge "Generate Rock Ridge directory records"

Test your hardware too see what supports.

Try this link:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....=7472&hl=backup