In article ,
David Nebenzahl wrote:

Obviously you don't understand the disk requirements of many consumer stand
alone CD recorders, and he does.
It has nothing to do with CDROM Vs CD-DA data streams, (which is totally
irrelevant if you are making a music CD anyway, since you are NOT burning a
CDROM format in either case, if you wish to play it on a CD player!)
It has everything to do with copy protection systems and royalty payments.

So tell me, MrT, what does that have to do with the type of CD-R one
uses to burn? I recognize that there are protection schemes and all
that; probably better than you do, since I used to work for a company
whose primary business was CD duplication equipment. It doesn't matter
what kind of *media* you use.

Here in the U.S. all "consumer digital audio" CD-R burners (the
standalone type) are required by law to work *only* with "consumer
audio digital recording media" blank discs. These blanks are
fundamentally quite similar to (in fact, almost identical to) the
generic computer-type "restricted use" blanks, save for two
differences:

- A 2% royalty on their wholesale price has been collected from the
manufacturer, for payment to artists and music publishers, and

- A code has been molded into the pregroove to indicate that the
royalty has been paid.

Generic data-type CD-R blanks won't work in standalone CD recorders,
because the recorder firmware is required by law to reject 'em.

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