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Writing an audio CD

Writing an audio CD

There are two ways in which you can write audio data to CD-R/RW media.

Creating an audio CD

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●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.

Start End

Song A

Start End

Song B

Audio CD

Track 1	Track 2
	interval (2 seconds)

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.

Start End

Song A

Marker = off

Start End

Song B

Marker = off

Audio CD

Track 1 Track 2

no gap

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.

Start 1 2 End

Song A

Marker = on

Start 1 2 End

Song B

Marker = off

Audio CD

Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4

NOTE

•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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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.

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