cd-rewritable problem

bomber2

I have been trying to burn some music using windows media player and real player,i have a packard bell cd-rw disc with one song on it but when i try adding any more it says cd finalised,how is this pos when the cd is rewriteble.

superscaper

Try erasing the disc first.

culpepper

have you formatted it as a cdrw?
I have incd with my rw drive and you must do that else it sees it as a normal once writable cd.
I think in nero you can have it as a session cd even if it is not rw,cant remember exactly but for drag and drop etc it needs the special formatting done first.

bomber2

superscaper wrote: »

Try erasing the disc first.

sounds stupid but how do i do that,when i insert the cd nothing appears.when i go to burn songs to the cd it just pops out,iam not a total retard in copyiny music i manage downloads to mp3 player no bother but this has me stumped.

iviv

Insert the CD, and go to 'My computer'. You should see the CD drive listed, and jsut right click it and select format. (Make sure you do this on the CD drive!)
The problem is in how media player burns CDs. It doesn't just burn them as mp3s, it creates a special CD so that it will play in any CD player, not just on computers. While this is great, it also finalises the CD, meaning you can't add anything else to it. on CD-RWs, you can just format it, and add all the songs again.

totalsolutions

Dont finalise the disc. The "finalise" event closes the disc and writes the table of content. This closed disc with one song/file cannot be written to again. When burning a cd put as many files/tracks as you can "at once"
An open disc can be read only by the pc writer and not in any player.

Draw backs of using open cd's to add more later
When you added another track you lose up to 10Mb of storage per writing "session" due to rewriting the table of contents area also I think you can lose the lot under certain conditions with Incd, etc. I do not use it.

You can read more on this topic from the wonderful article from Andy McFadden's CD-Recordable FAQ

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