Hi Sharon, Almost any CD-R you buy will give you the ability to create audio CD's, it's just a matter of being able to tell what ever software you are using that you wish to create an audio CD, and it will take any tracks you wish to burn onto a Cd and convert it to a dot CDA format, which is what the files look like on an audio Cd.
Most CD's, especially audio CD's will allow you to burn anywhere between 19 to 22 songs on it. These songs or audio tracks should not exceed a total of 70 minutes, 80 minutes, depending on the length of CD you purchase. Good name brands to buy are Sony, maxell, TDK and/or Mitsui. The one thing you should ask the dealer of the CD's you are buying is whether the dye on the CD is silver on silver. Most Cd's nowadays come with the silver on silver dye on it already, but some less reputable dealers will try to push, or place on sale, Cd's with different colour dyes on it. To ensure that your audio CD's will play on all Cd players, you should purchase silver on silver CD-R's. You can buy CD-RW's, however, once you create the audio CD, you will have to finalize the CD, and it might make the CD-RW unrecordable after the burn process. Just so you know, CD-RW's are CD's that you can write to over and over again, just like a floppy disk. The only trick is that you must create data CD's when burning files to a CD-RW. On the other hand, Cd-R's are CD's that you can only burn once, or several times, depending on whether you close the CD or not. Closing may also be referred to as finalizing the CD, it will depend on what term your software uses to describe this process. Once the CD is closed/finalized, you can no longer burn any other files onto it's surface, so you must make sure that all the files you burn onto the Cd are there. With a data Cd, you can burn between 700 and 800 megabytes of storage space, which equals a heck of a lot of songs, usually in the range of 150 to 225 tracks. Hope this helps. Victor Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
