On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 7:16 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> A friend recently posed the following question. Since I know nothing about > this subject, I'm hoping for an answer from some of our forum "geeks" and > "guru's." - TIA! > > Question: Blank (writeable) CDs can be purchased either as DATA, AUDIO or > (plain Jane) recordables. I'm in the process of transcribing my vinyl > record collection onto CDs, and I discovered that one set of the blank CDs > that I purchased is labeled "DATA". > > So the question is 'What happens if I write an audio content to these > purported "data" CDs ?" Well, anything that you write to a CD is considered to be data be it music, spreadsheet files, hard drive back ups, or whatever. So, when you burn a "music" CD, you are actually burning a data CD that, when read, will produce music. There are differing formats used for CDs, so an "audio" CD will be written to in a certain way so that the composition of its data is predictable for playback purposes in a CD player. That being said, any CD will work equally well for music, backing up your hard drive contents, storing images, etc., etc. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
