Thursday, 02 May 2019
Can I record audio tracks to a CD-RW disk?
Well yes… you certainly can record it, and then later erase that stuff and record something else instead. The catch is that even if you use standard audio CD format you almost certainly won’t be able to play a CD-RW disk in any of your audio CD players… I’m not too clear about the engineering reasons, but there’s something about the way the recording on a CD-RW disk is done which results in it simply not being readable by most audio CD players, or indeed older CD-ROM drives – a drive must be «multi-read» capable in order to be able to read CD-RW disks, I believe. I’ve heard that some of the latest audio CD players *can* play CD-RW disks, but I’ve never found one that could myself.
