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
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.
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
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 7:16 AM, chrper...@aol.com chrper...@aol.com 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
Careful. I think the audio cds are some sort of oddity that has
already paid royalties or some nonsense like that. You just want
generic (or Data) cds.
Wait. Actually, I'm not sure I'd go to cd anyway. You can get a lot
more albums on a DVD.
A much more important question is: What type of
It is my belief that there is no difference at all between a music CD
and a data CD except the price. There is a royalty paid to ASCAP for
each music CD sold because the intent is to store music on the CD that
has a royalty attached.
Whereas DVDs, in my experience, differ greatly in quality
The same CD quality issues apply to CDs as DVDs but for most people's
use quality doesn't matter.
See: http://www.cdrfaq.org/
and
http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html
But I try to always buy higher quality media because one doesn't know
when burning exactly where or if quality/ longevity
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
All CDs are data CDs. The difference is in the quality of materials
used. A no-name disk probably won't last. I like Mitsui, Taiyo Yuden,
Verbatim, the top versions of each. Some are rated at 30-50 years, but
since computer CDs only date back about 20 years, it's hard to tell.
We have a
