At 09:24 AM 3/3/2004 -0800, Holly Dzyban wrote: >Sorry, guess I wasn't very clear there, was I? > >Our collection will eventually consist of roughly 15,000 Mitsui Gold >CD-Rs, each of which holds one copy of an analog recording. Say 6,000 will >be in a semi-closed archive, used only when the mp3 copies do not have >high enough sound resolution for our linguistic researcher. 9,000 will be >stored in a closed archive, only handled to make another CD copy if one of >the 6,000 is lost or damaged. Between the semi-closed and closed archives, >we'll have five copies of each recording, each on a separate CD. > >Is that enough information? Thanks so much for your help. As an amateur in the field, I will offer one recommendation: Do not put all your masters on the same medium. Fine as Mitsui Gold discs are, if there should be a manufacturing problem or other systematic error, all copies could fail. One set should be on a different medium of comparable quality. Mike -- [log in to unmask] http://www.mrichter.com/