Advantages: You get to poke about in my CD collection
Disadvantages: You will end up thinking I'm odd(er)

...my time too. LIVE MUSIC! Only one on CD… Rock in Rio by Iron Maiden. Tonnes on vinyl though as I went through a stage of loving live albums. Not by Led Zeppelin though as they tend to go off in tangents half way through a song. HAVE YOU EVER SUNG SOLO IN PUBLIC? Does at school count? I did have a few solo’s in concerts, never the lead though. HAVE YOU APPEARED IN A MUSICAL OR OPERA? Again at school. We did Joseph and his Technicolor Dreamcoat and I was in the chorus and had a solo as the baker… “There I was standing with baskets of bread“…. Whoops I started singing again! HAVE YOU PERFORMED WITH A BAND? I did (attempt to) play drums while an ex was rehearsing in a studio, but the drummer soon took the sticks away from me and banished me to a corner. HAVE YOU SEEN ANYONE LIVE IN CONCERT? Oh yes…. I used... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, Free Delivery, regular 50p Vouchers given to all customers!
Disadvantages: Choice, not as big as other companies, but is still big!!!

...CD Wow is one of the most cheapest online shops for your CD Music. I was a total E-Bay maniac, everything came from E-Bay, until I realised how expensive it was, and how even more expensive it is getting, this is partly due to its popularity, and people over bidding on items. Take a look and you can see people are spending £5 on a CD, then another £3 on its delivery. Bearing in mind that this is a second hand product. This is also very true for console games, time and time again people are spending in total after delivery over £25 not realising the prices of other sources. So with this "Enlightenment" I would like to invite you to CD WOW.com There prices are the lowest available to the UK, and the price you see is what you pay, it includes FREE international delivery, you don't have to spend over £20 like some companies... Read review

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Advantages: Has lots of great features, Cd-copier, Iso burning, Iso creation, Jewel case and CD layout design, CDRW erasing and more
Disadvantages: Sometimes does buffer over runs

...Adaptec Easy CD-creator has many good functions, where the CDR market is concerned, it’s easy to use interface and good tools, make it an essential Windows CD-writing piece of software. Easy CD-creator has many features one of which I like especially is the Multi-Session disk capability, With this you can store both audio and data on the same CD, seamlessly. This allows you to place your CD into the CD-player and play music from it and also you can place it in the CD drive and open the data stored on it. With this program you can also create a single Data CD, which means only a computer can read it or you can create a single Audio CD, which means only a CD-player can read it. Adaptec Easy CD-creator also includes tools such as, ISO creation from certain tracks of data on the CD, CDRW erasing, CD-Copier, general tests... Read review

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Advantages: self explanetory, ease of use, works on XP
Disadvantages: Could not upgrade from earlier version

...I was very annoyed when I built my new pc and installed xp to find Easy CD creator would no longer work, so annoyed I wrote a damning opinion on ciao, slating Roxio. Eventually, after three months of calming down and desperately trying to get around the fact that Easy cd creator 3, 4 or Direct cd 2.5 will never work on XP and being fed up with microsofts limited and slow cdwriting package(no re-writing) I decided it was time to buy the Platinum 5 software. I searched the net.....how much? still 50 quid? Tried everything even bidding on an illegal copy on ebay to get this packet writing software at a sensible price. So out I went into sunny Bournemouth....PC World, nill stock £50....Staples, nill stock £45, Commet, nil stock, Dixons????? "what is that?" and "does it work on Playstaion2?" I gave up and went home with a webcam instead... Read review

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Advantages: Huge array of built-in facilities
Disadvantages: Could be overkill if you only want to make copies.

...There never was anything really wrong with Adaptec’s Easy CD Creator 4.0 Deluxe, so why am I now writing about version 5.0 Platinum? Because bl**** Windows XP Pro won’t work with the older version, that’s why! However, it would only be a matter of time before I upgraded my CD-Writer to a newer faster model, and then support for 32-speed models probably wouldn’t exist on version 4 anyway, so the enforced necessity of the upgrade isn’t a COMPLETE waste of money. In the mean time, the software is now owned by Roxio, which sounds more like a Spanish cinema chain than a software house, but that’s by the by. It was on the support page their web site, www.roxio.com that I ascertained the need for the upgrade. Windows XP only informed me that the old version might not work. But why buy CD-Burning software when the CD-Writer itself... Read review

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Advantages: A successful burn gives you satisfaction
Disadvantages: Gets costly with mistakes

...So you own a CD Writer then do you? Well, if you have used it a few times, you will probably have suffered the agony of wrecked discs that only have one purpose in life ....as Drink mats! Thats right, you have been out and bought a set of blank CD's to record your music, software or files on and have lost a few in the process. That box of 10 Blanks that cost only £5 worked out at only 50p a CD. Lose 3 or 4 of them during a bad burn and your CD media price will basically double 6 good cd's out of a box of 10 sounds drastic but it can happen. what I intend on sharing with you will, I hope, lead to more successful burns and save you some money in your pocket, or at least, reduce your pence per CD ratio. 1) Software. ------------ Getting the right software is essential. Although your CD Writer is the actual physical hardware... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to use, lots of features, idiot-proof
Disadvantages: Advanced users may prefer Nero - this program is rock solid though

...Easy CD creator 5 is the easiest program to make CDs with and comes with a huge range of extras. Version 5 is a large improvement over version 4, and the below review refers to the duluxe version. CREATING CDS Creating CDs couldn't be simpler. You insert a blank CD and select your project type. You can create audio, data, mixed, video cd, bootable and more. Once you've done this you can drag and drop items into your CD layout. Version 5 now allows you to add mp3s to CD automatically, and it rips them itself. It will also imoport previous sessions on the CD if they exist. This is useful as once you write a new session onto a CD using this feature, you will be able to see both sessions without having to change between them. Writing the actual CD is simple. Version 5 supports buffer underrun protection that comes with many new CD... Read review

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Advantages: Very fast drive. Good software and updates. Looks gorgeous.
Disadvantages: Needed firmware update (free download)

...It is easy to get skeptical as the onslaught of technology goes from 1GHz to 2GHz to 3GHz. Is it really 3 times faster? Does a 52X CD-ROM drive really read 6 times faster than an old 8X drive? Is Double Data Rate memory twice as fast as normal SDRAM? For the most part, the answer is a stonking "NO". There are overheads in all of the above, but they ARE faster, just not in a straight line from zero. So when I had to buy a CD-RW drive for my PC, I was loathe to go faster than 16X or 24X writing. After all, a 700MB data CD is 80 minutes, so 16X writing should mean it takes (quick calculation) 5 minutes to write a full CD. I usually used my old CD-RW drive about once a day, so it wasn't like I had queue of disks to write, just the odd file transfer or backup. As it happened, my supplier was out of stock on the lower speed drives... Read review

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Advantages: good battery life
Disadvantages: ?????

.... But the power of the audio tape gradually waned. After excessive use they had a habit of getting chewed up and snapping. Fortuitously it was about this time that the makers created the compact disc. They were a big hit with the people and soon became more popular than the audio tape. Everyone bought their audio tape collection again on compact disc and lo, were even more impressed. The makers were happy because they were selling their entire back-catalogues on the new format. The people were happy because there were no more chewed tapes and no more waiting to rewind or fast forward to their favourite songs. Could the people want for anything more? Of course they could. The people soon found that they had trouble fitting the new fangled compact disc in their walkmans and demanded something more suitable. The makers responded with the CD... Read review

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Advantages: £8.99 a Cd, Fee Postage
Disadvantages: erm None that I have found

...Anyone who has read pretty much any music op I have done will have noticed I usually recommend going to CD-Wow to buy the album. Well I thought it was about time I actually wrote about the site, instead of just giving them the odd mention. So here we go a little bit about one of the best places to buy CD’s from. I’m sure your already aware that I buy a lot of CD’s, well one of my mates was aware of this too and a few years ago he found a site that had about 200 CD’s for sale at about £8.99 a piece and a further 100 or so at £6.99. So he e-mailed me the link I took a look and have been buying CD’s from them ever since. The site has evolved over the years to what we see today from just a simple black screen with all the artists names on it. CD-wow is a pretty small company, founded by it’s two... Read review

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