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Do you prefer CD-R or CD-RW for music? (sopuli.xyz)
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For those who use CDs for music, which writable CD type do you use, and why?

Main differences:

  • CD-R can only be written once
  • CD-RW is more expensive
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[โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As long as you gave them the full experience with tossing a disc in the trash because of a buffer overrun. Damn Nero software!

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    And weird bugs like Windows audio somehow creeping into audio CD burns. Or the times in Linux where the tray would refuse to open or close. I used to keep a paper clip next to my next to force it open sometimes....

    I don't miss that hardware.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago

    I had pretty good luck burning discs, they would occasionally fail.

    I had a CD-RW I used for my mp3 player, and the software I used (Roxio) had this mode where you could treat the disc like any other mass storage device, you could add a single file.

    For our young friend SagXD, burning a CD usually had to be done as a whole. You'd arrange all the files (if a data disc) or audio tracks (if an audio disc) in a buffer, and then burn the entire disc in one shot. If done at "1x" speed, it could take an hour, but "8x" speeds were pretty common, if more error prone. With my rewritable CD, I could add a single file if I wanted to and not have to rewrite the entire disc. Adding a single song to the iPod I got in college wasn't much less rigamarole.

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