OFF: "Music" CD-Rs

[M Holmes]

Paul Mather writes:

Music versus Data CDRs:

> The difference is basically that the consumer (i.e., "music") CD-R
> blanks have a record industry levy built in to the price, ostensibly
> as a compensation against piracy.  Physically, they are the same
> thing, though flagged on the disc as comsumer, hence the proliferation
> of warranty-invalidating mods for consumer recordable CD units to
> allow them also to accept the less costly computer CD-Rs.

Do I understand correctly here:

The music discs have a data flag somewhere on the disc which tells the
music CD writers that it's OK to write on 'em and without modification
they won't write on normal data CDR discs?

You're a positive mine of information on this media technology Paul.

> Paul.

FoFP