Boss Audio Systems BR-900CD owner manual Creating Audio CD, Precautions, Writing Songs to Discs

Creating Audio CD

Precautions

In addition to CD-R discs, you can also use CD-RW discs when making audio CDs. However, it may not be possible for audio CDs created using CD-RW discs to be played on standard CD players.

Furthermore, even when CD-R discs are used for this purpose, playback will not be possible on CD players that do not support this type of media. You should, therefore, confirm that the CD player to be used is compatible with CD-R discs. Note that the BR-900CD’s CD-R/RW drive can play commercially produced audio CDs, CD-R discs, and CD-RW discs.

When you use the CD-R/RW drive, you must use only the supplied AC adaptor. The CD-R/RW drive cannot be used while running on battery power.

Setting the Time Between Songs (Pre-Gap)

Often when you are playing audio CDs on standard CD players, you will see a countdown in the form of “-3, -2, -1” on the player’s display before songs start. This duration is referred to as a Pre-Gap, and it can be freely set during the CD creation process to allow song lengths to be adjusted without having to record silence at the end of each.

1.Press [CD-R/RW].

The CD menu screen will appear.

2.Press CURSOR [ ] [ ] to move the cursor to “AUDIO,” and press [ENTER].

The Audio CD menu screen will appear.

3.Press CURSOR [ ] [ ] to move the cursor to “GAP,” and press [ENTER].

The pre-gap setting screen will appear.

4.Use the TIME/VALUE dial to specify a gap time between songs in seconds.

5.Press [EXIT].

If silence is included at the end of your finished song, the pre-gap time will be added to the length of this section, and as a result, the gap between songs will be longer than expected when the CD is played back on a CD player. For details regarding the deletion of silence from the end of songs, refer to “Erasing Data (Track Erase)” (p. 73).

Writing Songs to Discs

Have on hand the disc you want to burn as an audio CD. You can write the data to any of the following discs.

•CD-R or CD-RW disc with no data written to it (blank disc)

•Discs that have song data that was written to them using the BR-900CD, but which still have space available for further recording and have not yet been finalized

Methods for creating audio CDs

With the BR-900CD, only the currently loaded song is written to the audio CD. If you want to include other songs on your CD, they will each have to be loaded and written in sequence. When you use this method, individual songs can be added to a disc one at a time until it is full. This method is called “Track At Once.”

1.Load the song that you want to write.

2.Insert an unrecorded CD-R or CD-RW disc into the CD- R/RW drive.

3.Press [CD-R/RW].

The CD menu screen will appear.

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