Re: Goodbye to APS, and Question About CD-Rs.

Daniel W. Rouse Jr. wrote:
> "dj_nme" <dj_nme@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 
>>Rudy Benner wrote:
>>
>>>Is there any difference between data or music CD-rs? I don't think
there
> 
> is.
> 
>>There is a difference between blank CDs sold labelled as music as
>>opposed to data CDs.
>>Blank "music" CDs work in stand-alone CD recorders, like the stereo
>>systems that have recorders and cannot use standard data CD blanks.
>>I believe that there must some sort of label or tag pre-burnt into the
>>boot(?) sector of the music CD blank that the recorder can recognise.
>>
>>The "music" labelled disks are more expensive and so I've never bothered
>>trying them in my computer to burn data onto.
> 
> 
> They should work just as well as non-music CD-R.
> 
> I've backed up photos onto HP CD-R Music discs on four different
occasions
> and I used Ahead Nero 5 to create the discs. No errors were re****ted
during
> the data CD write process, and the photos on the disc were subsequently
read
> without error.
> 
> Other CD-R Music media may work just as well... HP Music CD-R is just
the
> media I had available to me at the time.
> 
> Other programs such as Adaptec/Roxio Easy CD Creator may work just as
> well... Nero 5 is just the software that was included when I purchased
my
> CD-R drive.

For computer use there is no difference between "music" CDs and CDR 
blanks, but I am pretty sure that the stand-alone (or stereo system) 
music CD recorders need the special "music" CDs.