Well there are lossless compression formats but in general this is fine.
Some people don't feel that CD/DVD media is a good option for long-term
archiving (20 years+) because the oxygen trapped between the substrate
layers will eventually oxidize and destroy the data. I personally do not
know if this is true or not. But burned media for sure has a certain
lifespan due to the dyes used in the disks as the storage medium.

I heard once that the Library of Congress was still archiving music using
records instead of digital or optical media formats, for these reasons.
Although susceptible to heat or breakage, they will pretty much last forever
outside of that. Again, who knows if this is true.

So maybe the answer is to archive all of your material onto records. Haha.

-Ben

"John T" wrote in message
u...
As the subject says...I saw a post here a couple of years ago from someone
playing with Ampex tape but got written off for saving to a lossy
compression format. I'm thinking of doing the same but with .wav files to
either CD or DVD discs...good idea?


John