Yamaha AW4416 manual CD-Rand CD-RW, Cd-Rw

Chapter17—Mastering

CD-R and CD-RW

CD-RW drives support two types of media: “CD-R” and “CD-RW.” These two types of media differ in the following ways.

❍CD-R

CD-R media can only be recorded or added to. Previously-recorded data cannot be erased and rewritten.

CD-R media to which audio data has been written by the AW4416’s mastering function can be played back on a CD-RW drive or on most CD players if the media has been “finalized.” Additional audio data can be recorded on CD-R media only if the disc has not yet been finalized.

❍CD-RW

CD-RW media allows previously-recorded data to be entirely erased and rewrit- ten. (CD-RW does not allow data to be added as on a CD-R.) CD-RW media to which audio data has been written by the AW4416’s mastering function can be played back on a CD-RW drive or on some CD players. However caution is nec- essary, since many CD players do not support CD-RW at the present time.

The following table shows compatibility between CD-R/CD-RW media on which audio data has been recorded, and CD-RW drives and CD players.

Recording/Playback			CD-RW drives	CD players
	Disc At Once		●	O
			No silence between	No silence between
	(finalized automatically)
			tracks	tracks
CD-R			●	O
		Finalized	Two seconds of silence	Two seconds of silence
	Track At
			between tracks	between tracks
	Once
		Not finalized	⋅	⋅
			(data can be added)
	Disc At Once		●	q
			No silence between	No silence between
CD-RW	(finalized automatically)
			tracks	tracks
	Track At Once		CD-RW media does not support Track At Once

●: playable

O : playable on most devices

q: playable on some devices

⋅: not playable

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