What is the difference between a CD-R and CD-RW?

Difference Between a CD-R and CD-RW

Here are opinions and answers from FAQ Farmers:

• They look the same. If you want to "burn" music to a CD, you must use, only a CD-R. Or you may copy a game from one CD-R to another CD-R (your computer requires a CD-burner to do this. After burning your CD-R either for music or games, that disk can never be used again for anything else. Where a CD-RW is rewriteable, meaning whatever data you place on that disk can later be erased or the disk reformatted so that it may be used again for something else. The CD-RW is primarily used only for data files.

• CD-R is for writing once and reading many times, whereas CD-RW is for writing upto 1000 times and reading many times. CD-R's are compatable with many devices including cd players and dvd players if properly burned. CD-RW's will usually only work with computers regardless of the format of the final CD (SVCD, VCD, Data or Audio CD) although some cd and dvd players do support them it is rare.

• Another difference is that a CD-RW costs almost five times that of a CD-R.

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CD - RW may also be used for music provided you music player can read them. A good use for this is in the car. My stereo will play CD - RW discs and Mp3 file formats. The combination of the two allows me to change my music in may car on a regular basis without using multiple CD - Rs<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

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