CD Burning

[The Real Bingo]

Yes, I'm back, but this time its about copying music CDs.

My father claims that there is a way on a CD-R disk to "keep it open" so you can in effect use it as if it were a CD-RW. I dont know where he got this from, but I was just wondering if thats true, and there is a way to burn a CD-R and come back to it and add another song or something.

Thanks.

[Atomic Rooster]

With a CD-R you can keep an "open session" allowing you to write more to the CD up to it's capacity. But you cannot erase and rewrite to a CD-R, as you can with a CD-RW. The only way you can add more songs to the CD is if your burning them as MP3's. If you create a music CD consisting of .wav files, it will "close" the CD at the end of the burn making it unable to add more .wav files.

[The Real Bingo]

Brilliant. Thank you Rooster.

[Starfury_2260]

you can erase files on a cd-r except you dont get the space back that the file used. AFAIK you cant listen to a cd-r in a cd player until it's closed, so keeping the cd "open" would only allow you to listen to it on your computer.