I'll try to explain my situation and I'm looking for some advice.
Our church recently updated the sound system and I (along with another guy) got roped into "running" it. The sound equipment was installed by an outside company and now I'm in the process of getting familiar with the whole system.
In a nutshell: The service is recorded by an I-pad device. After the service is over, everything is exported to a laptop computer and then it is burned to a CD-R to be listened to people who couldn't make it to church that day or to elderly shut-ins. Normally, 3 or 4 CDs are burned (recorded) each church service. The program to burn these CDs is Audacity.
Everything is fine up to this point EXCEPT the fact that right after the service you have 3 or 4 people waiting for their CD. Burning each CD takes about 4 minutes using the laptop CD burner. We've asked the congregation to donate some old phones (which they have) to transfer the service directly to the old phones and that works great, probably taking about 5-10 seconds per phone. The problem with that is that the elderly won't use the phones, it's too complicated for them and will only use the CDs. So recording to the 3 or 4 CDs takes about 20 minutes or more, while each person is waiting for their CD.
So.....I know there are CD duplicators out there, but does anybody make a multiple CD burner where multiple CDs are burned at the same time? Ideally, if we could burn 3 or 4 CDs at the same time and everybody gets their CD within 5-10 minutes after the service, it would be great.
Suggestions? Please don't tell me to record to an old phone. I've already suggested that and I hit a brick wall. They used to record to cassettes and the elderly were complaining hard enough when the service got switched to a CD.
Our church recently updated the sound system and I (along with another guy) got roped into "running" it. The sound equipment was installed by an outside company and now I'm in the process of getting familiar with the whole system.
In a nutshell: The service is recorded by an I-pad device. After the service is over, everything is exported to a laptop computer and then it is burned to a CD-R to be listened to people who couldn't make it to church that day or to elderly shut-ins. Normally, 3 or 4 CDs are burned (recorded) each church service. The program to burn these CDs is Audacity.
Everything is fine up to this point EXCEPT the fact that right after the service you have 3 or 4 people waiting for their CD. Burning each CD takes about 4 minutes using the laptop CD burner. We've asked the congregation to donate some old phones (which they have) to transfer the service directly to the old phones and that works great, probably taking about 5-10 seconds per phone. The problem with that is that the elderly won't use the phones, it's too complicated for them and will only use the CDs. So recording to the 3 or 4 CDs takes about 20 minutes or more, while each person is waiting for their CD.
So.....I know there are CD duplicators out there, but does anybody make a multiple CD burner where multiple CDs are burned at the same time? Ideally, if we could burn 3 or 4 CDs at the same time and everybody gets their CD within 5-10 minutes after the service, it would be great.
Suggestions? Please don't tell me to record to an old phone. I've already suggested that and I hit a brick wall. They used to record to cassettes and the elderly were complaining hard enough when the service got switched to a CD.
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