Pioneer PDR-W37 Recording copyright material, Recording and finalizing discs, Before You Start

Recording copyright material

The price of a consumer-use disc includes a copyright fee that has been paid to the copyright owner (in countries where the copyright fee collection system has been established based on their respective copyright laws). This means that you can use these discs to record music and other material for your personal use. If you want to use a disc for anything other than personal use, you must get permission from the copyright owner (note that copyright laws vary from country to country; check the copyright-related laws in your particular country for more information).

Broadcast programs, CDs, other recorded media (cassettes, vinyl records, etc.) and musical performances are all protected by copyright laws. You must get permission from the copyright owner if you sell, transfer, distribute or lease a disc recorded from the above mentioned sources, or if you use it as part of a business (such as for background music in a store).

Recording and finalizing discs

Unlike other recording media, recordable CDs have a number of distinct states, and what you can do with a disc depends on the current state of the disc. Figure 1. (right) shows the three states — blank, partially recorded, and finalized — and summarizes what’s possible (✔) and impossible (✘) in each.

The process of finalization fixes the contents of a CD-R in place for good by creating a Table of Contents (TOC, for short) at the beginning of the disc. This tells a CD player exactly what's on the disc and where to find it. Once a CD-R is finalized, further recording and other changes become impossible. The CD recorder and other CD players treat a finalized disc as an ordinary playback- only CD. (See page 31 for more information on finalizing CD-Rs.)

CD-rewritable discs can be finalized in the same way as CD-R discs, but even after finalization, the disc can still be erased and used over again. Remember that CD-RW discs can only be played on players that are specifically designed to play CD-RW discs: most home CD players will not play these discs, even after the disc has been finalized. (See page 30 for more information on finalizing CD-RWs.)

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fig 1. differences between recordable and rewritable discs.

✔ Recordable		✔ Recordable
✘ Erasable		✘ Erasable
✘ Skip ID set/clear		✘ Skip ID set/clear
✘ Play in ordinary		✘ Play in ordinary
CD player		CD player
	Record
✔ Recordable		✔ Recordable
✘ Erasable		✔ Erasable
✔ Skip ID set/clear		✔ Skip ID set/clear
✘ Play in ordinary		✘ Play in ordinary
CD player		CD player
	Finalize
✘ Recordable		✘ Recordable*
✘ Erasable		✔ Erasable
✘ Skip ID set/clear		✘ Skip ID set/clear*
✔ Play in ordinary		✘ Play in ordinary
CD player		CD player**

*Once the CD-RW has been erased, it becomes recordable again and skip IDs can be set and cleared.

**In general, current CD players cannot play CD-RW discs. However, this situation may change.

Playing partially recorded discs

Partially recorded discs (discs which contain recorded material but have not yet been finalized) can be played in the 3-CD changer of this unit with the following limitations:

•It will take longer than usual to read the disc when you load it and start playback.

•When the partially recorded disc is stopped, the display will not show any disc time information. During playback, only track elapsed time is displayed; you cannot switch to any other display mode.

•If you play a CD-RW from which tracks have been erased, you may still hear the erased tracks and the disc may not play correctly.

•It may not be possible to play an unfinalized disc if there is very little blank space left.

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