On 6 Aug 2005 at 14:23, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 01:46 PM 08/06/2005, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: > >Let's say I want to back up data, and I want to use a CDR Disk. > Can >I use a CDR Music Disk, > > No. > > All CDRs start out the same, what we call a data CDR. If you use a > blank CDR to make an audio CD (one that will play back like a regular > CD, not a CD with WAV or AIFF files), there's some kind of switch that > gets set which marks it as an audio CD. > > If you buy preformatted audio CDRs or music CDRs, these are data CDRs > which *already* have this switch set, and there's no way to unset it. > The only thing these CDRs are good for is making audio CDs to be > played on a CD player. You cannot use them to back up any kind of data > files, including Finale files.
This is not true. A "music CD" is simply a completely unformatted CD. A data CD, on the other hand, has been formatted with a particular file system. A client of mine needed a CD-R and the store nearby had only pre- formatted music disks. Those worked just fine used as data CDs. The other difference, I believe, is that you pay extra for "music disks" because there are royalties paid on those that are divided up between musicians/performers, on the theory that the disks will be used to make copies that will take away from sales of original music. I have never seen preformatted data disks, though. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
