Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:16 am Post subject: data and audio CDs?
A neighbor gave me a blank CD to save some computer files. I've used
disks from that box to record music, but I the computer hasn't let me
record data.
Online I found advice to somebody with a similar problem: are you sure
you're using a data CD? I hadn't known there was a difference. A big
online computer store has lots of kinds of CDs but doesn't say whether
they are for data or music.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:11 am Post subject: Re: data and audio CDs?
On 04 Mar 2007, Smokesipper <pyrolitic@nospam.please> wrote in
alt.comp.periphs.cdr:
Quote:
Is there a difference? What is it?
As I understand it, "music only" CD-Rs had a royalty charge built into
their selling cost, and had an embedded code that prevented them from
being used for data. Otherwise, they were the same media as data discs.
If the CD-Rs are recently bought, I'm sure they are all-purpose discs.
I believe that music-only discs aren't manufactured any more. It was a
dumb idea that died a quick death.
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