Hi Mark, you opinion is appreciated on the MP3's and I'm not offended. I understand that they are a compressed format and they skip at around 10 seconds before the track ends when you play them on the SD card player.
You appear to be someone who knows his stuff. I see you use the same strategy like me with the DVD recorder. You dub all the Countdowns to DVD discs. Sadly nowadays there are less recorders in the shops compared to PVR's. People in general prefer songs and movies stored on hard drives. I had a play with a Humax base model that was very slick. You could back up the files on an external hard drive and play them on your PC. However you couldn't A-B erase or divide titles. This means that for editing purposes you would have to investigate suitable software and determine whether it produces a decent DVD. Prior to this what level of quality are the MPEG4 TS files it produces?
I still find my two Sony DVD recorders (HX710 and HX890) do the best job.

Some of my faves...

1985 Comes Alive
Choose 1985
1982 Out Of The Blue
1984 The Beat
1985 On Fire
Hits Hot 84/85
1986 Just For Kicks
Summer '87
1982 With A Bullet
1986 Out Now
and many others, not keen on some of the K-Tel type ones.

I want to get hold of them all again eventually on CD/DVD, used to have the majority on vinyl.

Frank, I use the top encoding setting for recording, I think this is about 10mbs, possibly higher. In record mode, I can choose ELP (very ordinary), LP, EP (extended play) SP (short play), and XSP (X super play) which is the recorders best quality. I use XSP for every thing, even when taping the video's off rage.

When it comes to my compilation of the 80s though, this would be a very difficult decision to make, though out of the EMI ones from the late 80s like (Hit Pix 88 Vol 2), and (1989 Be happy) were pretty ordinary.

If i had to choose my favorites, then roughly in this order:

1. Rocktrip 82 (CBS 1982
2. Thru the Roof '83 (CBS) 1983
3. The Breakers (Warner) 1983
4. Keep on Dancing (EMI) 1983
5. Throbbin 84 (Polystar) 1984
6. Heaps of hits 84 85 (CBS) 1984
7. 1984 The Beat (EMI) 1984
8. Just Hits 85 86 (CBS) 1985
9. Turn It Up 85 (CBS) 1985
10. 1985 Hottest on Record (EMI) 1985
11. Squeezed out (K Tel) 1980
12. Instant replay (K Tel) 1979
13. Howlin' for Hits (Concept) 1984
14. 1987 Let's Party (EMI) 1986
15. Explosive Hits 78 (EMI)
16. Summer 87 (Polystar) 1986
17. Gone Troppo (K Tel) 1980
18. 1982 The Winners (Polystar) 1982
19. Turbo Charged Hits (Concept) 1986
20. Starcall hits (Starcall / RCA) 1980
21. Hitwave 82 (Polystar) 1982
22. Choose 85 (EMI) 1984
23. 1986 Way to go (EMI) 1986
24. Straight Ahead (K Tel) 1982
25. Hungry for Hits (Concept) 1987
26. 1986 Just for Kix (EMI) 1986
27. 87 Hots Up (Polystar) 1987
28. 88 Just for Kicks (Polystar) 1988
29. 1985 Let's Go (Starcall) 1985
30. 1980 the Music (EMI) 1980
31. 1981 Over the Top (EMI) 1981
32. Solid R O C K (Concept) 1985
33. Let's do it (WEA) 1990
34. 87 Right on Track (CBS) 1987
35. Summer 88 (WEA) 1987
36. 88 The Winners (WEA) 1988
37. 1989 The Right Stuff (RCA) 1989
38. Hit Pix 88 Vol 1 (EMI) 1987
39. Hits of 89 Vol 2 (EMI) 1989
40. Breakin it up (Concept) 1984

Hi Mark, I did email you last week. I think it was Saturday. Email me and I'll give you my address details and you can give me yours.

I'll do the CD for you ASAP. I don't have a CD recorder from the 90's. Mine was actually purchased brand new back in 2006. It's like a little stereo system with a lift up wooden lid to put the record on the turntable and has speakers on the side with the CD player/burner etc in the middle with controls etc. including the radio. I actually bought it on the fact that the guy at Dick Smith told me that I would be able to burn the radio onto disc. Which it doesn't. I paid about $400 for it back then.

Re the disc, I can either burn it again from the record or burn the disc I did for myself. If I burnt my disc of it, it will have the track breaks or if I recorded it again from vinyl, I'm more than happy to break up the tracks, I just hit the track increment button between each track or I can set it up that when there is silence for a couple of seconds, it automatically puts the breaks in. Let me know what you prefer. I'll also provide the artwork!

Hi Michael, yep, I did get your email, it got lost in the amount of spam that I get.

That all sounds cool, I'll get the discs off within the next few days. If you just do a copy of your disc, that will be fine.

Thanks

Hi guys. Just wondering if anyone is willing to provide copies of some of these CD compilations for me? Please email me if it's a possibility and if there's anything I can help you with in exchange.

Touche xxxx
New Romantic K TEL record. The first compilation I owned on cassette in 1982