Best CD-R Burn Speed For FLAC?

I ordered some Taiyo Yudens the other day with the intention of storing some FLACs I had lying around but with the intention of keeping as much clarity as possible. What is the best burn speed that wouldn't dull the quality but also wouldn't take forever and a day to finish each disc?

ras-trent

  On 11/7/2015 at 7:15 PM, clarktrent said:

I ordered some Taiyo Yudens the other day with the intention of storing some FLACs I had lying around but with the intention of keeping as much clarity as possible. What is the best burn speed that wouldn't dull the quality but also wouldn't take forever and a day to finish each disc?

i would burn them really at the fastest speed tbh, your flacs will be fine

Troll thread? Burn speed will have zero effect on audio quality obviously but I wouldn't use CD-Rs for backups or archiving anyway. Even the good ones are too prone to degrade over time whether you use them or not.

store them on 5 inch floppies for best quality

convert to 320 mp3 and store them on a flash drive

you won't be able to hear a difference

Considering the obsolete technology mentioned it's likely this thread was created 10 years ago but made with a very slow post speed to prevent quality loss.

Why do CD burners still advertise all of the different speeds you can burn at (4x 8x 16x 32x 64x) when only the highest speed matters?

What the heck is the point of that?

CD duplications places always recommend burning master discs at the slowest possible speed to reduce the chances of errors occurring.

5 or 8 inch floppy disk. the floppier the disk the better the files will sound

  On 11/7/2015 at 10:34 PM, MisterE said:

8 inch floppy diks

sorry i said you werent idm stephen. i take it back

MediaMonkey

  On 11/7/2015 at 9:30 PM, Herr Jan said:

Considering the obsolete technology mentioned it's likely this thread was created 10 years ago but made with a very slow post speed to prevent quality loss.

Lol.

* prints thread with laser printer for archiving purposes*

All the albums I downloaded off of Limewire can't all fit on my little hard drive, come on now.

Do it as quickly as you can, otherwise it will take longer than necessary

Surprised nobody has mentioned digital vinyls. They're the best for storing FLAC, especially vinyl rips.

do it yourself by hand using a pottery wheel and handheld laser pointer. only then will you achieve the quality you desire.

The burn speed has to match the bit rate of the flac file or you'll end up with jitter effects. You need to ascertain the revolution speed of the drive then use the burn multiplier to get the closest value to that bit rate. Remember that the disc is writing data faster towards the edge of the disc so if you have burning software that can compensate then you'll reduce the chance of bit smearing.

FLAC's ? lol. use FLOL's you noob, none of that FLAC veilness, the bits are perfect and round, and a hint of that warmish analogue sound we all love.

  On 11/8/2015 at 2:20 PM, eugene said:

FLAC's ? lol. use FLOL's you noob, none of that FLAC veilness, the bits are perfect and round, and a hint of that warmish analogue sound we all love.

Damn, how could I have not known about FLOLs before? Got me an example attatched below, the dynamic range is incredible. Too bad Joyrex still hasn't added FLOL support on here yet so I had to convert to mp3. Smh.

flol.mp3Fetching info...

depends on the brand of the burner, and the specs of the cdrs, someone needs to fetch those specs. no one here can really answer that without doing that work.

for added measure, create a google drive, a dropbox and store them there.

45 rpm, obviously.

  On 11/8/2015 at 1:45 PM, mcbpete said:

The burn speed has to match the bit rate of the flac file or you'll end up with jitter effects. You need to ascertain the revolution speed of the drive then use the burn multiplier to get the closest value to that bit rate. Remember that the disc is writing data faster towards the edge of the disc so if you have burning software that can compensate then you'll reduce the chance of bit smearing.

but.. bit smearing is part of that amazing digital warmth that only CDs can provide!