On Nov 20, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Brian Jones wrote:
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.
I did not know that this was being enforced by the hardware. Bummer!
It is good to know that every blank disc has an information block that
is read when the disc is inserted into a burner. This is why there is
a bit of a delay when a disc is inserted into a burner as the burner
has to figure out what you have fed it. Different discs are made with
different materials and the burner has to adjust to the requirements
of the disc. It is quite amazing how this complicated setup is handled
so invisibly that most of us don't even know it is going on.
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