donaldforbes.macgregor Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 In addition to having 3 MD decks and I'm not sure how many portable MD recorders, I also have in regular use, a Sony CD recorder (twin disc) the RCD-W3 and I would like to know if anyone out there in the forum has a method of formatting regular CDrs (data - so dirt cheap!) for use in this machine? It normally has to be supplied with "Audio CDrs" which are much more expensive. Or is there any way of "re-programming" the W3 recorder so that it can recognise regular CDs? After all, PCs and Macs can burn perfectly acceptable audio onto regular (cheap!) CDs which the Sony W3 can read and play, but when it comes to recording on the W3 it only likes blank Audio CDs. Thanks, in anticipation of a solution! Donald. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 I've never (until now) understood what trick the manufacturers pulled when making these types of CD recorders. There's absolutely nothing magic about a CD Audio disk. I guess the range of embedded serial numbers which may help a drive to tell the difference between CD and DVD (and other optical formats in the same physically sized disk), are highly restricted. So that would be a firmware hack of some kind, to bypass this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_recorder See the paragraphs on SID and RID Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donaldforbes.macgregor Posted August 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 I've never (until now) understood what trick the manufacturers pulled when making these types of CD recorders. There's absolutely nothing magic about a CD Audio disk. I guess the range of embedded serial numbers which may help a drive to tell the difference between CD and DVD (and other optical formats in the same physically sized disk), are highly restricted. So that would be a firmware hack of some kind, to bypass this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_recorder See the paragraphs on SID and RID I've also come across this info -site which gives further information: http://club.myce.com/f58/why-buy-cd-r-audio-instead-cd-r-recording-music-175302/I've also come across this site which has postings giving more information: http://club.myce.com/f58/why-buy-cd-r-audio-instead-cd-r-recording-music-175302/ cheers, Donald. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 Sorry to say, but the one about a special frequency is the sort of fairy tale told by elderly uncles to 5-year old kids. This is a digital device with digital media. The protection lies in the embedded numbers, and the program (firmware) on the RCD-W3 that reads them. Most people here have long since concluded that the best (well, most practical) way to record things digitally is to make MD's using Sony decks (or portables for microphone recordings) and then figure out how to get that (via Computer) onto CD. Years ago subjective tests were done, showing that you literally cannot tell any difference in the result, when ATRAC is used. It's how I prepare my own CD's, and the whole reason I got into MD. You get editing for free; most rewriteable CD's are way too unreliable to use for that. But you shouldn't need convincing of that, being an MD owner Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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