Finally purchased the NO DVDs / Question about CD-Rs

Im quite ashamed of myself actually: I call myself a big NewOrder fan, Ive owned my own DVD player for over a year now, yet only today have I actually got round to buying '3 16' & '5 11' to add to my N.O collection.

Actually though, Im glad I *did* wait, as, from play.com '3 16' was only £7.99 & '5 11' was just £10.99, which I thought was reasonable for both, especially the older one. Plus theres no delivery charge, which is always a bonus, but Ive used play.com before to purchase my beloved wrestling DVDs & they`ve been great....

Im extra happy today, not only because of the N.O DVDs, but also that Ive bought my own PC for my house this morning. No longer the long walks to use my parents computer, ah, the convinience, but anyway.... I was hoping some kind NOOnline member could answer me a quick query.

Sounds a daft question I know, but am I able to record music onto CD-Rs on my new PC, or is it just CD-RWs? My computer comes with a CD-RW drive, & I know that the difference between the two is that CD-Rs can only be recorded on once, whearas CD-RWs can be wiped & used over & over again, but Im not quite sure if I have to use just CD-RWs on my PC, or whether I can use CD-Rs too. If a kindly soul here could respond to this query as soon as possible, youll be my bessie mate, etc etc....

Thanking you in advance,

Thanks, Shug, your advice is much appreciated

I thought this was the main forum?... To be honest, its been such a long time since I used NOOnline regularly, I think Ive missed a shit-load of stuff here...

CD-RW writers can burn CD-Rs. Don't worry bout that.

There exist software tools that allow you to extract the audio tracks from a DVD and convert them in wav or mp3 format, if you want to burn a CD-R for listening in your car . One of these is ImToo's DVD Audio Ripper. Theoretically you'd have to pay for it but it is easy to find a patch on the internet . Their other tool CD Ripper makes it possible to extract tracks from any audio CDs; even copy-controlled ones.

I guess it's a stupid question: can you extract the audio track from the DVD to burn it into a CDR even if your CD Rom player is not actually a DVD player? No, right?

Originally posted by Mick Aneworderfan I guess it's a stupid question: can you extract the audio track from the DVD to burn it into a CDR even if your CD Rom player is not actually a DVD player? No, right?

Er, no, only DVD ROM or DVD-RW drives will read DVDs at all!