Greetings!

One warning about allowing the automatic truncation of CD Creator. If you have really long file names, you may wind up overwriting some of your tracks. I only saw this a few times with some classical pieces (where the names of the titles grew very long indeed). Just verify that the truncation does not overwrite existing tracks, and that you get the same number of tracks out as you put in. CD Creator should check, but does not.

I agree with the idea of keeping the tags in tact. As long as that is the case, you can always rebuild the filenames at a later date. Label your CD-Rs. It will help later on. If you have a lot of CDs you are archiving, you might want to check out CD binders and DJ Cases from Univenture. This is where I got mine, and they do a lot of specialty CD packaging, especially for archiving and distribution.

One last note of caution: if you are burning CD-Rs, you will probably want to make certain you have verify on and do only a few CDs at a time. My burner began to go flaky after doing a lot of CD-R burns, and (even though they verified correctly immediately after) began to display a lot of bad blocks later on. If your drive is sensitive to heat buildup, you way want to take a break every few discs.

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (40GB Green)