[wellylug] CDs and CD Audio and Things

[Tim Wright]

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On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 6:53 pm, Tim Nicholas wrote:

> It is my understanding that CD drives (of any sort - computer, audio or
> even DVD) are simply not designed to spin constantly. It's not something
> that you are going to be able to do reliably.

This is almost right. You can get CD players designed to play all the time, if 
you want to pay for them. Radio stations need them (or, rather, needed. Not 
so important now --- it's all stored on Computers).

I once worked in a station that had consumer CD players and they crapped out 
every week or so.

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Tim Wright
Lecturer
School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences
http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/people/Tim-Wright
Public Key: http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~tim/key.asc
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