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Chapter 22

Creating an audio CD

This chapter explains how you can use the CD-RW drive to create an audio CD, and how to play back an audio CD.

Creating an audio CD

You can select one or more songs on the AW2400 hard disk, and write the audio data from the stereo track of each song to a CD-R/RW disc in CD-DA format. The CD-R/RW media to which you write this data can be played by a CD-RW drive or a conventional CD player in the same way as a standard audio CD.

NOTE

•Some CD players do not support CD-R/RW media, and may not be able to play back CDs created by the AW2400.

In order to create a CD, you must first register one or more songs in a “track list,” and then write the virtual track cur- rently selected for the stereo track of each song (the “cur- rent track”) to the CD in the order specified by the track list.

A maximum of 99 tracks (areas on CD media to which audio data can be written individually) can be written to one CD-R/RW disc, and each track must be at least four seconds long. The maximum length of audio that can be written to a single disc is approximately 74 minutes for 650 MB discs, or approximately 80 minutes for 700 MB discs.

HINT

•The total size of audio data that can be written to a single disc is 746 MB (approximately 74 minutes) for 650 MB discs, or 807 MB (approximately 80 minutes) for 700 MB discs.

Types of media that you can use with the CD-RW drive

The AW2400 CD-RW drive can use two types of media: “CD-R” which lets you record and append data, and “CD-RW” which can be erased and rewritten as required. These types of media have the following characteristics.

● CD-R	● CD-RW
You can write data to a new CD-R disc, and append addi-	In addition to writing and appending data, this type of
tional data later on. You cannot erase data that has already	media lets you erase all recorded data and write new data
been written and rewrite the disc. Once you perform a pro-	to the disc. Audio data written to a CD-RW can be played
cess known as “finalizing the disc,” the audio data written	back by a CD-RW drive or by CD players that support
to the CD-R can be played by a CD-RW drive or by most	CD-RW media.
CD players.

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