Can I Avoid Swapping Audio CDs In and Out of the Drive?

Making an audio CD may involve swapping CDs in and out of drives many times. For example, if you make the CD using your CD-Writer Plus as both the source and destination drive, you will need to swap CDs every time a new track is copied to the CD-Writer Plus drive.

To minimize the number of times you swap CDs:

1.Copy the tracks to your hard drive using Easy CD Creator. This is called pre-recording audio tracks to wave files.

Approximately 10 MB of space on the hard drive are required for each minute of music.

2.Once all the tracks are on your hard drive, copy them to the CD using Easy CD Creator.

The User’s Guide provides a step by step description of how to copy the audio tracks to the hard drive and then on to a CD. Click Start on the taskbar, point to Programs, HP CD-Writer Plus, Information, and select User’s Guide. Select Making Music CDs and go to the section called Pre-recording Audio Tracks to Wave Files. You can view this information through your web browser.

Can I Use the New 80 Minute Audio CDs?

HP does not currently support the new 80 minute audio CDs even though the HP CD-Writer Plus and the included software are capable of using them. The manufacturing process for creating 80 minute CD-R discs is extremely difficult and the resulting discs do not consistently meet HP’s standards for reliability at the time of this printing.