This is an old Thread (May 09)... But I have a bit of info that was not
mentioned.
My nephew purchased an audio CD recorder a few years ago to record music his
band was playing. I too thought that any CD will do, but this unit looked
for some marker on the CD to indicate that it was an Audio CD before it
would write to it. It would reject standard data CD's.
So there you have it.. the audio CD has a bit set somewhere that the Audio
CD recorder can find, and as Tom says, it indicates that the 'royalties'
have been paid in advance.
- Brian
From: "Tom Piwowar" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] CD differences (?)
>So the question is 'What happens if I write an audio content to these
purported "data" CDs ?"
Audio content is data.
The "audio" designation is for discs that include a royalty to the RIAA
to cover the cost of all the music they think you will be stealing.
Your friend will insist that they bought the music on the vinyl record,
but the RIAA insists that all they sold was a license and that this
license does not allow copying the music to a CD.
*************************************************************************
** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy **
** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **
*************************************************************************
