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Glossary
CD-R
Compact Disc-Recordable is a technology for write-once media. The Orange Book standard
defines the storage of audio data and other computer-readable data.
Disc-At-Once
Disc-At-Once refers to a method in which the laser in your recorder burns straight through in
one session without turning off and on be
tween each track. This method is best when re-
cording Audio CDs you would like to play on your home or car stereo.
Frame
With an Audio CD, 75 sectors provide one second of played music. One sector consists of
up to 98 frames; one frame contains 24 data bytes and 9 control bytes. Similarly, "frame"
de-
scribes
a full screen in television and video technology. Two successive half images result in
a full screen within a second due to interlacing.
Image
An image refers to a single file on the hard drive that contains the image for a complete disc.
A disk image can be used to create exact copies on media at a later point in time if problems
corder is connected to your PC. The image requires
occur during the write process or if no re
as much free space on the hard drive as the contents of the original disc.
Joliet
Joliet refers to an extension of the ISO-9660 standard for file names. Joliet was designed by
Microsoft in orde
r to represent more characters. The file name can be up to 64 characters
long and contain the letters A-Z, a-z, umlauts and the ß.
Label
A label refers to a label on a disc. Some drives, e.g. drives that use LightScribe or La-
belflash™ technology, can transfer labels directly to
special media.
Labelflash
Labelflash is a technology with which pictures and texts can be burned on the label side of
a
disc w
ith a laser.
Labelfl
ash
Labelflash is a technology with which pictures and texts can be burned on the label side of a
disc with a laser.
LightScribe
LightScribe is a technology with which pictures or texts can be burned on the label side
of
discs with a laser.
MP3
The MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 audio format is used to reduce the size of audio files to a frac-
tion of their original size (factor 1:10) with little loss of quality. You can estimate about 1 MB
per minute as opposed to 10 MB for the original files. This value and the quality can vary de
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