Bill Mixon said:
>I wonder whether some of the CD-Rs that prove unreadable elsewhere are using a
>non-standard format.
Could be. I don't know what format any CDs use, although the open ones I
was making were not of the interactive program type that Bill described. It
could be that the open CDs are not in a standard format though, and get
converted to one when finalized. Actually, what probably gets finalized is
their directory, since there would be no way to change the data format after
files were already recorded.
>I've never seen any advantage to programs like Nero.
Nero gives options for different types of CD, like audio, video, data,
backup, etc., although I don't know if there is any real difference in those.
I like the way Nero allows me to organize the files before I burn the CD. I
can add, remove, and shuffle the order at will. It also shows a bar graph of
CD capacity and how far along I am toward filling it up as I manipulate files.
One can also save the burn project for future use, although I have never done
that. It seems unlikely such features would affect the final format, however.
Mark Minton
