AW2400 Owner’s Manual
Writing an audio CD
Creating an audio CD
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There are two ways in which you can write audio data to CD-R/RW media.

●Track At Once

This method writes the data one CD track at a time. The
advantage of this method is that you can add new data to a
disc that already contains data.
With the Track At Once method, the data from the begin-
ning to the end of a song’s stereo track is written to the CD
as one track. (Even if there is a portion during the song
that contains no data, it will be written as silent audio.)
Since each track is written individually, an interval of
approximately two seconds will be created between each
track.
In order for a disc written using Track At Once to be play-
able by the AW2400 CD-RW drive or a CD player, you
must perform a process known as “finalizing” to write
track information to the disc. Once you have finalized a
disc, no more data can be written to it.

●Disc At Once

This method writes all tracks at once. As when using the
Track At Once method, the data from the beginning to the
end of the stereo track of each song is written to the CD as
one track.
However since writing does not stop until all data has been
written, there does not necessarily have to be gaps
between the tracks.
When using Disc At Once to write a CD, you can use the
start point, end point and markers that were assigned
within the AW2400 song to divide a single continuous
song into multiple tracks.
This is convenient, for example, when you have recorded
a live performance as a single song and want to assign
track numbers while leaving playback in continuous form.
Media written using Disc At Once will be finalized auto-
matically, and can be played back by a CD-RW drive or
CD player that supports that type of media. However, no
further data can be written to a disc that was written using
Disc At Once.
Writing an audio CD
Track 1
Start
Track 2
End
Start End
Song A
interval (2 seconds)
Song B
Audio CD
Track 1
Start
Track 2
End
Start End
Song A
Marker = off
no gap
Audio CD
Song B
Marker = off
Track 1
Start
Track 4
End
Track 2
1
Track 3
2
Start End1 2
Song A
Marker = on
Audio CD
Song B
Marker = off
•Tracks shorter than four seconds cannot be written to an audio
CD. If you use start point/end point/markers to divide a song into
multiple tracks, make sure that each track is at least four seconds
long.
• If the length of the stereo track exceeds the writable length of the
media, you can create an audio CD by adjusting the start point/
end point so that the region is within the allowable length. (
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p. 88)
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