-I recently bought a CD-R drive, and found all the instructions and conditions fairly confusing. A co-worker who has had one for a while agreed with me, and he noted that while copying a whole CD was easy enough (basically a one-button process), he hadn’t quite figured out how to re-arrange different tracks onto a CD yet. He had the problem the instructions warn about: having a music CD where the player can only recognize either the first or the last song, but none of the others. I haven’t tried at all yet, but I got mine mainly for data storage anyway.
I see now that there are now bookshelf stereos with CD-R drives available; are these limited to copying whole CD’s, or can they actually do multi-session recording using source material off of different CD’s? -I don’t want one so much, but I am curious as to how this is managed… - MC
As I understand it, the stereo burners have an internal hard drive. You insert a CD, select which tracks you’d like to use, and wait while the burner rips the tracks to the hard drive. Insert next CD and repeat, until you have a full CD’s worth of songs. You can then rearrange them through a menu of some sort.
A couple of my friends own such systems, and frankly, I’ve always found them baffling when compared to my HP CDwriter.
Plus, mine was about 200 bucks cheaper, and I can burn stuff other than audio CDs.
What software does your burner use? If you don’t like it, check out Adaptec’s products. I’ve found them easy to use and fairly intuitive.
It is even worse. The new audio writers will only use the cdr audio disks which are more expensive than the cdr data disks. The expense comes from the added fee on those disks which are distributed to the record companies to compensate for the losses due to music pirating. I am not sure if the new CD players without the record feature can play the data only cdrs. But my old cd player will.
The software that came with the various cdrw drives I have is extremely simple to use and I bought cheap no name drives. You need to invest a little time to figure it out. Maybe it will take a wasted disk or two to figure out the problem but that in only 70 cents if you buy really expensive disks.