Re: CDR's & MP3 for GS???

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:

>I had to get one because APS was hopelessly out of stock on plain recorders
>when I got mine. The rewritable part has avoided making some coasters, but
>since none of my CD drives can read RW discs, it hasn't been worth a whole 
>lot. But like I say, you write to 'em in exactly the same way.

Well, I saw one demonstrated.  It was the HP external model that
connects to a Windows PC via an EPP parallel port.  The
salesman dragged a file onto the CD-RW icon, the HP drive
lit up, after a bit the CD-RW drive stopped spinning.  He
double clicked on the CD-RW icon and the file was sitting in
the window.

Looks like the same procedure as hard drive or floppy drive
reading/writing to me.

Maybe it is a Windows or HP specific CD format that Macs
don't have.  The HP drive WAS compliant with MULTIPLE
standards (all kinds of colored "books" or something).