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

[Stewart MacLund <sundie@lunaticfringe.org>]

OKay, i'm following you.

BUt!  If that were the case, i wouldn't be able to read CD-RW discs in my cdrom,
even if they were plain data.  Which i can.  Read them, i mean.

I'm going to go look this up.  I'm actually quite interested, now.

Sundie...

"John A. Kilpatrick" wrote:

> 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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