please can some1 clarify this issue of cdr speeds, when you record a cd 4 say 16x, it speeds up the recording proces, is that all? i mean what else does that imply, and why do we have the options, why doesn't it select the best thing and do it?
Well in the context of data integrity and duplication, the slower the better: (a) when reading a cd image, whatever processing facility your burner has, the slower you read it at, the more time it has to accurately read the cd and minimizes guesswork and (b) for burning, the same applies here, the slower you burn the longer the unit has to create an accurate pit and so on.
well, i recorded an audio CD at 16x. i'm quite sure that my cd player don't spin 16 times,but the CD plays, now a data cd recorded at 16x didn't work on a 4x cdrom, how is that explained
4X CDROMs are pre-multiSpeed specification drives. Meaning that there is a ceiling cap to the type media that they can read. They certainly cannot read the faster 16x discs. (Note that the HiSpeed specifcation is 4x-12x, so i would imagine that the multiSpeed spec is 1x-4x). Standalone CD playing units are not affeced by these standards becasue they can read any disc (provided they can read CDR/CDRW discs in the first place) that conforms to the CDA standard.
i'm not kwite gettin it rite, does that mean that a 16x cdrom is a standards conformant one? and that if i record a 24x cd, it will work on a 16x drive, what i'mt rying to get at is that, can a cd recorded at a higher speed work on a lower speed drive?
Okay what I am saying is that if you have an archaic drive (i.e., one that was made before the era of 16x burners), odds are that it is not capable of reading faster rated media. This has nothing to do with the speed at which you burned it at but rather to do with the actual physical disc. I know i had this problem when I had a 4x CDROM drive and was trying to read 16x discs.
