cd-rw and the cd players that play them

[silksmoov]

okay, here's the thing. i have a philps cd recorder (765) and though i've had a lot of fun recording cd's of my music, i get tired of having to use a new cd if i want add something else. i have a few cd-rw's but as we all know, they are only good inside of the machine itself.

so my question is, are there any cd players other than recorders that play cd-rw's and if so what kind and where can i find them. it be nice to use a cd-rw just like an MD. it wouldn't matter to me if they cost a fortune because that's what the regular cd-r's are for right?

smoov

 

[Buck62]

Aha!!! I have the solution to your problem!
I have a Phillips CDR880 which also records rewritables. You can play finalized rewritables on a Sony CDP-CE235 5-disc CD player. It costs me $129.00 at Best Buy about a month ago. The cool thing about this model is that it also has a digital/optical output, so you can get a perfect digital copy of any CD you want... whether it's a recordable, rewritable, or a pre-recorded store-bought CD of your favorite band... (of course, this would be breaking the law, so I'm not advocating doing this, but it does work). The only ones that won't duplicate is when you use Phillips recordables... the screen comes up saying "Copy Prohibit" and won't let you copy it. The way around that is to use the Maxell Gold recordable CD's, which are cheaper in price and sound better than the Phillips recordables anyway.
The Phillips rewritables seem to work okay as far as making copies though.
Just to be sure, bring in a finalized rewritable to Best Buy and test it out before you buy. I guarantee it will work on the CDP-CE235.
Oh, and don't buy the digital-fiber optic cable at Best Buy, the ones at Radio Shack cost a lot less per foot.

 

[Shailat]

I'm kind of weak when it comes to burners but can't your burner burn a single track and if you leave the CD open,
you can add as much as you wan't ?. At least until you run out of space.

 

[dobro]

Heya, Shailat - my experience is that you can *add* stuff okay, you just can't *hear* it afterward on a CD player. Because I haven't found a way around this, each time I burn a CD-R, it's the last time, too.

 

[Shailat]

Dobro,

I found this quote in a fAQ for burners.
The question was "I can read a CD-R disc on my CD-R drive, but when I put it into a CD-ROM drive it won't play. What should I check?"

The most common reason for this is that the disc has not been "finalized" by the recording software, making it unreadable by the CD-ROM reader. The finalization process is the last part of the multisession recording process which writes the overall disc table of contents into the disc lead-in area, making the disc conform to the ISO 9660 standard required by most reader and reader driver software.

Have you been finalizing you Cd's after you finshed with them ?




[This message has been edited by Shailat (edited 01-22-2000).]

 

[dobro]

I'm using Adaptec EZ CD Creator. I can burn a track to a CD-R, and if I want to be able to hear it on a CD player, I have to close the session. However, once I've done that, that's it for the CD-R... I can burn more tracks to the same CD-R, but they can't be heard (and are not even listed) on my CD player.

I want to be able to use a CD-R like you use an audio cassette - record one track at a time until the medium's filled up - but my software program doesn't seem to allow it.

This is a particular pain for me, because I'm monitoring through headphones, and the only way I can really hear what my tracks sound like is to burn them to CD-R and play them. This is expensive, even with cheap CD-Rs.