You can keep your digital hell
Feb. 24th, 2005 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaAn appeal to the technical cognoscenti:
A while ago, I bought some CD-Rs, made by Memorex, which claimed to be "audio compact discs" and warn on the packet, in big letters, "for music only".
Sadly, at the point of purchase, I failed to notice that they were CD-RWs - suitable for music they may be, but they won't play in the majority of CD players.
I'm now in need of a generic blank CD to put a data file on (it is, in fact, the bit of graphics I was faffing about with last night). Now, is it OK to disregard the large "for music only" warning ? I'm inclined to assume that the discs probably aren't much different from normal - and, while they may be in some way optimised for music (how?), they'll probably do just fine as data discs really.
Anyone have any idea ?
A while ago, I bought some CD-Rs, made by Memorex, which claimed to be "audio compact discs" and warn on the packet, in big letters, "for music only".
Sadly, at the point of purchase, I failed to notice that they were CD-RWs - suitable for music they may be, but they won't play in the majority of CD players.
I'm now in need of a generic blank CD to put a data file on (it is, in fact, the bit of graphics I was faffing about with last night). Now, is it OK to disregard the large "for music only" warning ? I'm inclined to assume that the discs probably aren't much different from normal - and, while they may be in some way optimised for music (how?), they'll probably do just fine as data discs really.
Anyone have any idea ?
