Philips EXP201/00 User Manual page 22

General information on Writing Formats
There are 3 formats used to record data on a disc:
1 DAO (Disc At Once)
All data to be recorded must be prepared and written onto a disc from start to
finish in one recording (single session) and will be 'closed' or finalized. You will
not be able to add further data onto your CD.
2 Multisession
Data is recorded at different times (multisession), where you can delete, copy,
move and rename files. However, by default most CD-ROM drives will only access
the last session of a CD-ROM disc. You should therefore use information or file
pointers about the last session where the old files were located, and about the
new files imported from the hard disk, in order to link all sessions and avoid any
loss of titles and album arrangement.
3 Packet or Package Writing
Packet Writing format divides tracks into smaller pieces of data during recording.
Depending on the available spaces on the disc, this means a single CD track
recording will be broken up into perhaps 10 fragments of music!
IMPORTANT!
• THIS SET CANNOT READ recordings created on the following: DirectCD,
Packet Writing, Package Writing and UDF.
• Do not attempt to combine CD audio and MP3 tracks within a CD-R(W) or
CD-ROM, as the set will only be able to playback your CD audio tracks
from mixed CD formats.
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MP3-CD PLAYBACK