Pre-formatted music CDs

[Gordon B. Alley]

I have no experience with stand-alone CD recorders, but this is what 
I have read about them:

Stand-alone CD recorders generally allow the user to record only on 
"music" CD-R discs. They won't record on "data" CD-R discs. Computers 
that have CD burners can record either type, AFAIK.

When you purchase blank music CD-R discs, you are also paying a fee 
to the music industry, en lieu of license fees. That's the main 
reason they are more expensive.

I don't believe that music CD-R discs are pre-formatted as we 
normally understand that term, but they do have something on them 
that the stand-alone recorder looks for to verify that it is 
authorized to record on them.

I've never seen any mention of a method to somehow modify a data CD-R 
or RW disc with a computer to make it recordable in a stand-alone 
recorder.

AFAIK, a stand-alone recorder/player can still PLAY a data CD-R disc 
that contains music recorded on a PC.

At Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:13:04 -0500, Carl Flatow <cflatow at optonline.net> wrote:
>I just learned about a new situation about which I need more info.
>Apparently there are music CD player/recorders made by RCA (and I
>assume, others) which require pre-formatted CDs.
>Can anyone tell me if regular blank CDRs and CDRWs can be formatted on
>one's computer  for this purpose, and if so, how?

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