You can keep your digital hell

[venta]

An 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 ?

Comments

[waistcoatmark.livejournal.com]

Had no problems with RW be it CD, DVD- or DVD+ (stupid sodding format wars). AIUI, "music" CDR(W)s are the only type of disc that can be used in hi-fi CD-recorders. Both data discs and music discs play back fine in CD-players(*). So given 48x IDE CD writers are given away free in packets of creal these days and hi-fi CD writers were 1x speed and cost a couple of hundred quid, the difference between music and data CDR(W)s is a bit academic.

(*) with the obvious proviso that CD-Rs are a bit less reflective than shop-bought CDs and CD-RW's even less so, so some CD players have trouble reading them. But tht's got nothing to do with whether it's data or music disc.