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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: Lona on December 01, 2002, 17:53

Title: Cd-R V CD-RW
Post by: Lona on December 01, 2002, 17:53

I have just bought what I thought was a bargain. 25 CD-RW for £20. What I would like to know is, can these disks still be used to copy music and will they play on a cd player, or are they purely for data? I haven't opened them yet and can take them back and exchange them for CD-R ???

Title: Re:Cd-R V CD-RW
Post by: Simon on December 01, 2002, 18:10

CD-RW are rewritable discs, i.e. you can record on then over and over again, as opposed to CD-R, which you can record on once only.

Some machines play back CD-RWs, but you have to make sure the disc is 'finalised', which is something your software should be able to do.  I have found that CD-Rs are playable on more machines than CD-RWs, so, as they are relatively cheap, I tend to stick to those, Lona, but that's just my preference.

I expect Adept will be along soon to tell you I'm talking crap again!!   ;D ;D

Title: Re:Cd-R V CD-RW
Post by: Adept on December 01, 2002, 20:03

LOL Simon, no it's good advice this time :o ;D

Title: Re:Cd-R V CD-RW
Post by: Lona on December 01, 2002, 20:43

Firstly, I know CD-RW can be written over. My next question is.....if I finalise it, can I still scrub it and write over. I like all your wee stars Adept ;)

Title: Re:Cd-R V CD-RW
Post by: Adept on December 01, 2002, 20:46

Thanks Lona. They are actually snowflakes ;)

You can scrub a CDRW up to 1000 times, if I recal correctly, whether it is finalised or not.

Title: Re:Cd-R V CD-RW
Post by: Lona on December 01, 2002, 20:58

That's good Adept. That means that when I get fed up listening to the rolling stones I can scrub it and put Queen on or Neil Diamond. I only play them in the car anyway while I am not looking where I am going (so Simon thinks) :P :P :P