At 03:11 PM 08/06/2005, David W. Fenton wrote:
>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.
There's a slight semantic issue here, but CDRs which are sold as
"music CDR" do have something which plain CDR blanks don't. But as
Lee Actor pointed out, this switch only means something to consumer
(i.e., non-PC-based) burners. When I said "data CD", I misspoke -- I
meant just plain old CDR blanks. Technically you're right that a data
CD implies that there's data on it, but we were discussing blanks.
>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.
As Lee pointed out, this is because whatever flag is set on music
CDRs is only meaningful to consumer decks. See also
http://cdrfaq.org/faq01.html#S1-13
Aaron.
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