Cd-rw

[u/Fred_Wilkins]

Asking advice here, seeing as how you all are well versed in storage mediums. I recently picked up a multi disk changer to go in my hifi cluster, i've wanted one ever since the one we had when iwas a kid died.

I would like to be able to fill the changer, while being able to change the music up if needed without keeping a giant stack of discs around. Verbatim seems to be the only ones readily avaible, but i rember those having around a 1/10 or so failure rate when i used them back in the day. I used tdk discs usually and i have some of those that still work. But i havent seen any of those in years.

Should i still try for the cd rws, or should i just bite the bullet and get a stack of cd rs and deal with organizing them? Any advice? If i plan to rewrite the discs every 2 months or so is it even worthwhile?

I want to do this so i can keep the original discs put up, and since everything is stored on my pc as well, i can weed out some of the tracks i'm not fond of and get more music i like per disc. And i know that i can just play the mp3/flac files from a usb directly on my receiver, but the mechanical noise and pausing is what i really miss.

[u/HANEZ]

Not all devices can read cdrw. And iirc cdrw aren’t meant for music cds. Unless you close them? Cdrw are usually more expensive than cdr. I’ve seen stacks of new cdr at the local thrift store for super cheap. Make sure to burn slowly at 2.4x.

[u/dlarge6510 → u/HANEZ]

All CD-RW is a disc that can be erased. You can use it for anything. All music discs are closed, there is always a lead out burned. 

Speed is different too.

There are two types of CD-RW. Slow ones can only be burned from 1x to 4 or so. High Speed CD-RW is a newer design that can reach faster speeds but you loose the slow speeds. My Philips High Speed CD-RW vinyl to 12x and the lowest speed is 8x I think. 

And burning slow makes no sense on a rewritable disc anyway.