Re: CD-Rs and the Clarion 635 Pro-Audio Changer

[kilpatri@evangelion.mti.sgi.com (John A. Kilpatrick)]

On Mar 24,  8:41am, Stewart MacLund wrote:
> Subject: Re: CD-Rs and the Clarion 635 Pro-Audio Changer
> Uhm.  I was under the impression that re-recordable cd's can't be written in
> orange-book format.  i thought that this was a basic problem with how the
data
> is written to the re-recorable disc...  In fact, if you write a re-recordable
> in your writer, then flip it to your plain jane cd-rom reader, it won't even
> read the audio there as audio tracks.

Let me try it one more time:

The reason your RW CD doesn't work in your regular CD-ROM drive (or any
other CD player for that matter) is that the material does not reflect
enough of the laser light back at the read head for it to understand.

The data is is in the same format, you *could* put audio data on a CD-RW,
but your regular CD player (or CD-ROM drive) won't read it.  Most new CD-ROM
drives are sensitive enough, however.  Some even make a point of this
on the outside of the box.

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