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

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> 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).

You can do the same thing with plain recordables, it just puts the data in
a new session each time. Each session on an HFS CD shows up as a separate 
volume, which can cause your desktop to get cluttered.
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