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...Music CD recorders are the most familiar of the lot. They look like standard CD players and can play standard CDs. But they also have the circuitry and lasers to burn music data onto blank CDs known as CD-Recordable or CD-ReWritable discs. (CD-Rs can be recorded on only once; CD-RWs are erasable and can be used again and again.) The resulting CDs sound as good as the originals and, in the case of CD-R discs, will play in any CD player; CD-RW discs require new players...
...catch? Blank music CDs are still expensive. CD-R music discs cost $6 to $10 apiece, CD-RW discs a whopping $18 to $25. That's thanks in part to a royalty agreement with the recording industry, which also requires that a special "copyright flag," or signal, be embedded on blank discs and that CD recorders accept only these flagged discs. That has kept the price of recordable CDs for music artificially high; virtually identical recordable CDs for computers by contrast are relatively cheap...
...MiniDisc format makes compromises in audio quality, using a data-compression method that renders it less accurate than CDs. At $300 to $500, MiniDisc recorders are less costly than full-size CD recorders but far pricier than the portable players they aim to displace...
Computer makers and webmasters aren't waiting for the music industry to sort things out. With the price of CD-R drives for PCs falling and CD-R blank computer discs (unburdened by copyright flags or royalties) selling for as little as a buck apiece, many computers are better equipped than home stereos to enter the digital-recording era. Even better recording technology is on its way: DVD-RAM and DVD-RW are erasable discs that can hold up to eight times as much data (or music) as CD-R discs. All this is not lost on the tech-wary...
...York Music Festival last month, the chipmaker simulcast more than 300 live performances from 20 Manhattan clubs on the festival's website (at www.intelfest.com in hopes of stirring interest in digital-music delivery. Missed it? No problem. You can simply download selected tracks and--if you have a CD-R and software from a little company called Liquid Audio--save them on a blank CD...