Storing Songs in Progress on CDRW, not my Hard Drive

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My hard drive is getting crowded as I create songs and leave them on my hard drive. None of them are finished as I am so new to this, and keep learning all the time, and go back to them as I learn more. Is it OK to store them on CDRW and not keep them on my hard drive at all ? I would make 2 copies on 2 CDRW disks for a backup. I would like to know how others are storing songs, and the plusses and minuses of each method. Thanks, Treesha
 
Make sure that you save them on the CD-RW as BUN files. There's also a fair chance, if your tune is complex enough and has lots of audio, that it might not fit on a CD... in this case, I know that tools like PKZIP can be used to break a single file into two or more pieces that can be knitted back together, but I've never tried this with a CD. Anybody out there do this, or something similar?
 
I'm saving my BUN-files on CD-RW too, and, like AlChuck said, BUN-files can become huge. However, I'm using WinOnCd with PacketCD, and it gives me the option to format an empty CD-RW in such a way that it can store almost twice it's normal capacity (by means of compression). Maybe other CD-burn hosts can do that too? You can't swap CD-RW's with anyone this way, but since it's only for archiving purposes...who cares. Now I can store over a gigabite of BUN per CD-RW.
I am waiting though till DVD-RAM becomes affordable.

greets, Tabnak
 
Bun save all audio and midi data in one file so is a safe bet. There are also some good WAV compression utilities around. Monkey's Audio (just do a net search for it) has a free utility that works well and is lossless... but it only compresses about 30% out (still a nice savings). I am wondering if some of the others which compress more actually lose data.... anybody every open an original and newly uncompressed files side by side and check?
 
Monkey's audio is fantastic... but it won't work on .BUN files :(.
 
AlChuck is right - both PKzip and Winzip can span a zip file into multiple files
 
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