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Old April 7th 06, 08:51 AM posted to uk.rec.audio
Jim Lesurf
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Default Non Audio CDR's on Sony?

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Hi,

Is there a hack or anything that let's me use non Audio CDR's (i.e.
standard blank CDR's) on my Sony RCD-W1? Google search turned up
nothing so I'm not holding out much hope...


I am curious as to why you wish to do this.

I used to regard this as an 'issue' (as we now have to say) when 'data'
discs cost noticably less than 'audio' ones. However my experience in
recent years is that they cost much the same, and are quite cheap. Also,
that in some cases 'audio' CDRs play more reliably in ordinary CD audio
players.



Just try recording a track and play it. On my lo-fi setup can't tell
the dif between audio and crap blanks.

-- John the West Ham fan

On a lot of CDRs, that's not the issue. A proper audio blank has a
digital watermark manufactured in, that says that some monetry duty or
other has been paid as part of the purchase price. Something to do with
recording copyright. Some recorders look for that watermark - notably
Philips ones - and if it's not found, the recorder won't accept the
disc as valid media. I guess that's what the poster is asking about.
I've never seen any hack to get around this.


IIRC with some of the early recorders you could load an audio disc, let it
be 'read', and then open/close the draw 'by hand' to replace it with a
'data' disc and the machine would then continue to think it was an 'audio'
disc and record onto it.

However I've never bothered with this as 'audio' discs are cheap enough.

FWIW a 'work around' is to record onto 'audio' CDRW. Then copy that onto
CDR on a computer before blanking the CDRW for re-use. I do this when
'editing' a recording to set tracks, etc, after actual recording.

Slainte,

Jim

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