Rewritable CDs

[dog-tired]

At the risk of sounding stupid....I have only now discovered how to copy a piece of music onto a CD via the computer(personal use only). What CDs should I buy? Are they all the same? Please advise? See....I do sound daft!

[Kerplunk]

There are 2 main types of CD. You have CD-R and CD-RW.

CD-R's can only be written onto once, whereas CD-RW can be overwritten many times. If you are using them to create audio cd's then it would be best to go for CD-R's because many cd players will not read CD-RW's.

Your only other choice is then what size disks to go for.

The bigure the size the more you can fit on. 700mb should be fine for most audio cd's.

[fo3nix]

You have a choice of two types for CD: CDR or CDRW.

CDR will let you create one music CD, and that's it for that CD. CDRW will let you play your music on it, then erase it and start again (you can do this many times).

There are lots of brands, but I've never had a problem with any of them at all, even the dirt cheap unbranded ones.

One thing to note: if you're creating an audio CD (as opposed to an mp3 music CD), then often your CD player in your hifi won't be able to read CDRW discs. CDR tends to be your only chance, and usually will hvae to be finalised with the burning software you use.

[dog-tired]

Thanks guys, very much appreciated.
Bye,
Sandy.

[fo3nix]

Oops, I swear kerplunk's answer wasn't there when I gave mine!

[Kerplunk]

At least we agree.