OFF: Re: Advice wanted: PC CD Writers.

[Paul Mather]

On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, sprawl wrote:

=> dragging and dropping the files.  It writes the CD directory at the last
=> step, so you can create (even audio disks) in multiple sessions.

With the caveat that multi-session audio CDs will only play all the
sessions in multi-session CD-ROM drives, i.e., only the first session
will play in standard consumer CD players.  (I have a Peter Green era
Fleetwood Mac CD I made, which I later added some Peter Green material
to later, as a second session on the disc.  In a computer CD-ROM drive,
it shows 20 tracks; in my portable CD player, and the one I have at
home, it shows only the first 12 tracks...)

(BTW, the table of contents is actually written at the beginning of a
session, not at the end.)

=> I would not concern myself with speed in the least.  Mine is r8 (or
=> maybe r4, I forget,) and w1-2 (can choose speed.)

I agree, unless you are going to be burning a lot of CDs on a regular
basis, e.g., as trades.  Personally, I just set it going and leave it on
its merry way, and come back later when the CD is "cooked." :-)

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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