Why must a CD-R disk be burned all in one session? I mean, suppose I don’t have enough to fill a disk. Must the whole disk be wasted? Can’t the PC know to burn just enough as necessary? (Or, maybe the industry just likes us wasting materials and money?)
And, do CR-RW disks allow any more flexibility, other than you write over them…and start again?
Thanks,
Jinx
I have no problems doing multi-session burns with my CD-R’s: what kinds of CD’s are you trying to burn? Data or audio? Also, what program are you using to burn the CD’s with?
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Read this from the CD-R faq. Perhaps you are using crappy software and should get a real CD burning program?
Perhaps Jinx meant multi session music cds, and why he/she can’t just continually add music to an existing cd.
Jinx, with some software you can burn the music, and burn more later. But the only problem is that the cd has to “close” so the player can read it and understand it. If you do burn some, and don’t “close” the cd, it won’t run. There needs to be an end for the beginning. And unfortunately unlinke Cd-RW burning you can’t re-open a music cd.
Its not a big deal is it
Hmm… First, I had heard this from others, so I took it as gospel. Next, I’m new to the CD burning scene, so I’ll have to experiment with it. Your saying I can simply pop-in a half-full CD-R in my CD burner, and simply add more files??? (Assuming these are not music files, but, then, why should music files make any difference?) Lastly, when I add more to a disk, does the index get updated or recreated? - Jinx
It depends on the software. There should be a menu choice to view the contents of the CDR and then to import the old contents. (You can selectively import some or all of any of the previous sessions.) So if there is a file on the CDR that you want to update, import the old session, delete the file from the current list, add the new version and write. The new version of the file is copied to the CD, all the old stuff is still there, and the directory is what you most recently wrote.
Note that each session takes a few extra megabytes of space on the CDR (depending on number of files, etc.) so plan on leaving space for this extra session info.
Cds are cheap these days. 100 pack of 48x ones are $1.94 after rebate at staples.com today or tomorrow.
Why not just create a music folder on your HD & add files to it as you get them, then you can write a new cd from that folder?