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

In article <rrIyd.6346$k25.2645@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, JunkMonkey
<Jnkmonkey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> For stand alone recorders - Possibly, I've never used a stand alone
> recorder.  However I have successfully recorded music (both mp3 and wav)
> files to standard CD blanks and they play just fine on my stereo system,
my
> car player and my ****table CD player.
> 
> Until I saw this thread I was under the assumption that music CDs were
> standard blank CDs whose manufacturers paid some sort of licensing fee
to
> ASCAP or something like that.

that is correct. 

there is a flag on the music cds which the cd recorder checks.
standalone recorders will refuse to record on cds without the flag and
computer recorders don't care. 

another difference is that music cds are optimized for slower burn
speeds (a standalone burner is usually 1x) and data cds can handle the
fastest burners available.