Yamaha AW16G Owner's Manual - Page 98

Creating an audio CD Methods of writing an audio CD There are two ways in which you can write audio data to CD-R/RW media. ● Track At Once This method writes the data in units of CD tracks. The advantage of this method is that you can add new data to media that already contains existing data. With the Track At Once method, the data from the beginning to the end of the stereo track of a song is written to the CD as one track. (Even if there is a portion during the song that contains no data, it will be written as silent audio data.) Since each track is written individually when you use this method, an interval of approximately two seconds will be created between each track. Start End Song A Start End Song B Audio CD Track 1 Track 2 interval (2 seconds) In order for a disc written using Track At Once to be playable by the CD-RW drive or a CD player, you must perform a process known as "finalizing" to write track information to the disc. Once you have finalized a disc, you cannot write any more data to it. ● Disc At Once This method writes all tracks at once. Similarly to when using the Track At Once method, the data from the beginning to the end of the stereo track of each song is written to the CD as one track. However since writing does not stop until all data has been written, there will be no gap between the tracks. Start End Song A Marker = off Start End Song B Marker = off Audio CD Track 1 Track 2 no gap When using Disc At Once to write a CD, you can use the start point, end point and markers that were assigned within the AW16G song to divide a single continuous song into multiple tracks for writing. For example, this is convenient when you have recorded a live performance as a single song, and want to assign track numbers while leaving the playback in continuous form. Start 1 2 End Song A Marker = on Start 1 2 End Song B Marker = off Audio CD Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4 Note • A track shorter than four seconds cannot be written to an audio CD. If you use start point/end point/markers to divide a song into multiple tracks, make sure that each track is at least four seconds long. • If the length of the stereo track exceeds the writable length of the media, you can create an audio CD by adjusting the start point/end point so that the region is within the allowable length. (→ p. 102) Media that you write using Disc At Once will be finalized automatically, and can be played back by a CD-RW drive or CD player that supports that type of media. However, no further data can be written to a disc that was written using Disc At Once. 98