Hi guys,

 

I have just bought a Novatech DVDCD4 CD-ROM rewriter/dvd player combo drive (48x/24x/48x & 16x DVD). Absolutely great value for money at £35.25 (incl VAT) IMHO and it comes with all the fixings, Nero software, INCD software, DVD player software etc). Plugged it all into the PC case and worked straight away - now how often does that happen?!

However, being an absolute novice to CD burning I have a question regarding the CD media. I have bought some Mr Data CDR's (48x compatible) and am now wondering if I need different CDR's for writing to once and for rewriting? Probably a stupid question but you don't learn if you don't ask :)

Also, whilst on the topic of burning CD's, if I want to create music CD's from mp3 files stored on my PC, how do I include the CD title and track titles and do I need to do anything to make it work on my Alpine headunit (it plays mp3 files and is CDRW compatible according to the manual).

Your feedback is greatly appreciated as always.

 

Regards,

To rewrite to a CD you have to buy CD-RW (Re-Writable)

 

 

To make a CD which will work on a MP3 player, just make a normal data CD and copy the tracks you want onto it.

 

To change the titles and artists of the track, use Winamp. Load the files you want into Winamp and then right click on the one file you wish edit the name of in the Winamp play list and select "view file info" or something like that. A screen will come up with the information on. You can change it there if you wish.

 

If the files already have the information stored on it, just copy them to a CD as the information about the song is stored on the song file itself. Your MP3 player will read the information when you put the CD in. That is why it takes a min or 2 before you can listen to the songs.

 

Stuart

To set the MP3 tags on the files use a piece of s/w called CD2WAV32 to do the ripping. It downloads all the track details from an online database automatically - and it's free.

Or Audiograbber :D

 

But its not Free. It does change whole CDs in to MP3 in about 10 mins.

 

I remember when MP3 first came out, it took 20mins to convert 1 3min song.

 

Ahhh progress :D

Thanks for your feedback guys.

 

So, in summary - and if I understand this correctly - I need CDR's to burn a CD-ROM like a music CD (I won't be able to burn to it again) and CD-RW's to burn a CD-ROM which I can burn to again (eg doing incremental backups). These are then two distinct and different media forms.

 

Ta muchly!

 

Dan

Originally posted by Danny

Thanks for your feedback guys.

 

So, in summary - and if I understand this correctly - I need CDR's to burn a CD-ROM like a music CD (I won't be able to burn to it again) and CD-RW's to burn a CD-ROM which I can burn to again (eg doing incremental backups). These are then two distinct and different media forms.

 

Ta muchly!

 

Dan

 

 

Yep you got it.

 

CD-RW wont last forever. Every time you re-write to them they will damage them. But I think it is something like re-writing on them 1000 times before they become unusable.

I found that if you are doing incremental backups, you can buy generic cd-r's which are cheap as chips and just throw them away when you do your back-up, that way you have a pristine recording everytime :)