Yamaha AW4416 Owner's Manual - Page 267

Chapter17-Mastering Track At Once and Disc At Once Data can be written to CD-R/RW media in one of the following two ways. ❍ Track At Once In this method, data is written in units of tracks (individual regions of audio data). This method can be used only for CD-R media. When the Track At Once method is used to write data to a CD-R, approximately two seconds of silence will be created between tracks each time a track is written. Additional audio data can be recorded later on CD-R media that was written using this method. • In order for CD-R media written using Track At Once to be played on a CD-RW drive or on a conventional CD player, you must perform the Finalize operation to write track location data etc. on the disc after all tracks have been written. • No further recording is possible on CD-R media that has been finalized. ❍ Disc At Once This method writes the data for all tracks in one operation, and can be used for either CD-R or CD-RW media. Unlike the Track At Once method, the operation will not stop until all data has been written, meaning that there will be no silent sections between tracks. • CD-R/CD-RW media written using Disc At Once will automatically be finalized, and can therefore be played immediately on a CD player. • No further data can be recorded on media written using Disc At Once. (However in the case of CD-RW media, you can erase all of the audio data and then rewrite.) 257 - Operation Guide