Owner`s manual

Mastering
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Chapter
12
Operation section
Track At Once and Disc At Once
Data can be written to CD-R/RW media in one of the
following two ways.
• Track At Once
This method writes data in units of tracks (areas
on the CD to which individual items of audio
data are written), and can be used only for CD-R
media.
When the Track At Once method is used to write
data to CD-R media, processing will pause after
each track is written, and this will create approx-
imately two seconds of silence between each
track. CD-R media that was written using this
method allows additional audio data to be added
later.
In order for CD-R media written using Track At
Once to be playable on a CD-RW drive or a con-
ventional CD player, a process called “Finalize”
must be performed on that disc to write informa-
tion such as track locations. However once the
CD-R media has been finalized, no further data
can be recorded on it.
• Disc At Once
This method writes data for all tracks at once,
and can be used for either CD-R or CD-RW
media. Unlike the Track At Once method, pro-
cessing will not pause between tracks even when
multiple tracks are written, but will continue
until all data has been written. For this reason, no
silence will be created between tracks.
Since CD-R/RW media written using Disk At
Once is automatically finalized, it can be played
back without further preparation on a CD-RW
drive or on a conventional CD player. However,
no additional data can be recorded on CD-RW
media, or on CD-R media written using Disc At
Once.
The following table shows how CD-R/RW discs on
which audio data is recorded are compatible with
CD-RW drives and CD players.
: playback possible
O: playback possible on most models
q: playback possible only on some models
×: playback not possible
Recording
Playback
CD-RW drives CD players
CD-R
Disc At Once (Finalized automatically)
No silence between tracks
O
No silence between tracks
Track At Once
Finalized Two seconds of silence
between tracks
O
Two seconds of silence
between tracks
Not yet finalized
×
(may add more data)
×
CD-RW
Disc At Once (Finalized automatically)
No silence between tracks
q
No silence between tracks
Track At Once CD-RW media does not support Track At Once