# Burning Data and CD tracks onto one CD **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 8, 2000, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-data-and-cd-tracks-onto-one-cd/32438 "2000-09-08T01:24:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amadeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Amadeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amadeus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-data-and-cd-tracks-onto-one-cd/32438/1 "2000-09-08T01:24:01Z")
None of my technicly inclined friends can tell me… I know you can have CD tracks and data on the same cd, but is it possible to do with a normal CD burner? I have a nondescript CD-RW, the software I use is the Adeptec CD-Creator. Does anyone know how to do this? Is it even possible with my software/hardware? Thanks muchos, teaming millions! ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-data-and-cd-tracks-onto-one-cd/32438/2 "2000-09-08T01:32:13Z")
I am sure it can be done, however having it read by other CD players might prove to be the problem. As to how to do it, select “make a data CD” and copy data and music to it. But like I said, making it readable by other CD players might be tricky. I would try putting all music on the CD first, then data at the end. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-data-and-cd-tracks-onto-one-cd/32438/3 "2000-09-08T01:36:20Z")
## The built in help topics section answers this question. Click on help topics tab at top and type “mixed mode”) How to Write a Mixed-Mode CD To write a Mixed-Mode CD, follow these steps: 1 Prepare the data portion of your CD. See How to Make a Data CD or use an authoring software application outside of Easy CD Creator if you are making a multimedia CD. 2 Insert a blank CD into your CD recorder. 3 Select New from the File menu. 4 Click the Data CD Layout tab. 5 Select the data files you want to add listed in Explorer and drag them into the Data CD Layout window. 6 Click the Audio CD Layout tab. Select the songs you want to record listed in Explorer and drag them into the Audio CD Layout window. A message box appears notifying you that the Disc Optimizer settings have been changed to support Mixed-Mode CDs. 7 Select Create CD from the File menu. The CD Creation Setup box appears. 8 Make changes, if any, to the CD Creation Setup box and click OK. Easy CD Creator begins creating your Mixed-Mode CD. It records the files listed in the Data CD Layout tab in the first track, then records the songs listed in the Audio CD Layout tab in the following tracks. All tracks (data and audio) are recorded in a single session. When the CD is finished, a final message box notifyies you that the recording is complete. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-data-and-cd-tracks-onto-one-cd/32438/4 "2000-09-08T01:41:10Z")
This is for Adaptec CD Creater v 3.5c ---
**Author:** ![Amadeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Amadeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amadeus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-data-and-cd-tracks-onto-one-cd/32438/5 "2000-09-08T02:08:54Z")
Yeah I didn’t see that in the help, it was burried in Data-CD -\> Advanced CD something or other. It says that Mixed CDs won’t work in home/car cd players. Has something changed? I used to play the Quake sountracks on my non-computer CD players all the time. Is the way Adeptec does it making them incompatible to normal CD players? Or will it work in spite of what they claim? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-data-and-cd-tracks-onto-one-cd/32438/6 "2000-09-08T03:19:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Amadeus \* > \*\*Yeah I didn’t see that in the help, it was burried in Data-CD -\> Advanced CD something or other. It says that Mixed CDs won’t work in home/car cd players. Has something changed? I used to play the Quake sountracks on my non-computer CD players all the time. Is the way Adeptec does it making them incompatible to normal CD players? Or will it work in spite of what they claim? \*\* WAG- If you burn the audio tracks first a CD player can probably pick them up. If there is data in front of the audio tracks a PC + CDROM (or maybe some DVDs) might be the only devices capable of reading it and making sense of the format.