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You'll probably like M/Supply, the prices are usually
good. I think they are Mitsui's biggest distributor.
They also sell a pile of others. For quantities or
a good item mix, they often price under what
their site says by a little, if you phone them and
look like a potential repeat customer, etc.
Generally everything they list is in stock, too.
Far as I've heard, Mitsui has no plans to disontinue
the 74's but that was as of my last big order late
last fall. Bought about a small pallet load of CDs and
various envelopes and cases, still working from
that . Filled up about 1/3 of a Fedex van.
(M/Supply has a really cheap Fedex deal too)
I use the 80 min CDs for audio once in a while too,
also Mitsuis.
I usually am prone to telling clients that a CD over 74 mins
ain't "legit" Red Book and so it's at their risk as to
working in every player out there. Most decide to
keep it to 74 mins to be safe.
Text titling for tracks on the CD apparently isn't legit,
either, but I get requests for that all the time.
Too bad MicroCD won't do that. When the client insists,
I have to use something else to make their masters,
and of course it takes a lot longer to prep them too.
Often with educ. type programs, clients are insisting
more than ever these days, too, since so many users
play them on computers as well as Walkman type CD
players.
Wish MicroCD could be updated to do it, but alas
no luck on that thus far. I'd think it wouldn't be
that impossibly hard to do, since there are
already cue files, etc. associated with it. Also
given MTU's karaoke expertise, I'd think that
would also be a help in doing it too.
I also still burn masters for replicators at 2x speed,
a holdout from something of Steve St. Croix I read
some time ago. Using the gold blanks and 2x,
replicators usually rave about what is sent in,
and usually tell me about all the problems they
have with CD premasters from some other places, especially
with stuff burned at high speeds. I wonder though
how they can tell what speed you burned the masters
at? Many plants I've dealt with have specs that say
"no greater than 4x burn speed".
Some things I've read say it's not
so much of an issue anymore, but I'm still doing it
the 2x way. Refs of course I do high speed though.
Let me know if you get 5.5. running under XP Pro,
meanwhile I'll hope for the missing VXD.
If anyone running XP got it to work, could you post the
contents of your Medit directory so others can see what files
you got? All the other Medit versions seem to have
a vxd both in the program directory and then it also
gets installed with you set it up in the Win/System
directory. But not there in mine.
The README says this VXD can be installed separately
for XP, but of course not having it makes that tough!
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