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AW1600 Owner’s Manual
Methods of writing an audio CD
Creating an audio CD
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There are two ways in which you can write audio data to CD-R/RW media.
● Track At Once
This method writes the data in units of CD tracks. The
advantage of this method is that you can add new data to
media that already contains existing data.
With the Track At Once method, the data from the begin-
ning to the end of the stereo track of a song is written to
the CD as one track. (Even if there is a portion during the
song that contains no data, it will be written as silent audio
data.)
Since each track is written individually when you use this
method, an interval of approximately two seconds will be
created between each track.
In order for a disc written using Track At Once to be play-
able by the CD-RW drive or a CD player, you must per-
form a process known as “finalizing” to write track
information to the disc. Once you have finalized a disc,
you cannot write any more data to it.
● Disc At Once
This method writes all tracks at once. Similarly to when
using the Track At Once method, the data from the begin-
ning to the end of the stereo track of each song is written
to the CD as one track.
However since writing does not stop until all data has been
written, there will be no gap between the tracks.
When using Disc At Once to write a CD, you can use the
start point, end point and markers that were assigned
within the AW1600 song to divide a single continuous
song into multiple tracks for writing.
For example, this is convenient when you have recorded a
live performance as a single song, and want to assign track
numbers while leaving the playback in continuous form.
Media that you write using Disc At Once will be finalized
automatically, and can be played back by a CD-RW drive
or CD player that supports that type of media. However,
no further data can be written to a disc that was written
using Disc At Once.
Methods of writing an audio CD
Track 1
Start
Track 2
End
Start End
Song A
interval (2 seconds)
Song B
Audio CD
Track 1
Start
Track 2
End
Start End
Song A
Marker = off
no gap
Audio CD
Song B
Marker = off
Track 1
Start
Track 4
End
Track 2
1
Track 3
2
Start End1 2
Song A
Marker = on
Audio CD
Song B
Marker = off
•A track shorter than four seconds cannot be written to an audio
CD. If you use start point/end point/markers to divide a song into
multiple tracks, make sure that each track is at least four seconds
long.
• If the length of the stereo track exceeds the writable length of the
media, you can create an audio CD by adjusting the start point/
end point so that the region is within the allowable length. (
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p. 106)
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