Yamaha AW2816 Owner's Manual - Page 185

Chapter Mastering 12 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 This method writes data in units of tracks (areas on the CD to which individual items of audio data are written), and can be used only for CD-R media. When the Track At Once method is used to write data to CD-R media, processing will pause after each track is written, and this will create approximately two seconds of silence between each track. CD-R media that was written using this method allows additional audio data to be added later. In order for CD-R media written using Track At Once to be playable on a CD-RW drive or a conventional CD player, a process called "Finalize" must be performed on that disc to write information such as track locations. However once the CD-R media has been finalized, no further data can be recorded on it. • Disc At Once This method writes data for all tracks at once, and can be used for either CD-R or CD-RW media. Unlike the Track At Once method, processing will not pause between tracks even when multiple tracks are written, but will continue until all data has been written. For this reason, no silence will be created between tracks. Since CD-R/RW media written using Disk At Once is automatically finalized, it can be played back without further preparation on a CD-RW drive or on a conventional CD player. However, no additional data can be recorded on CD-RW media, or on CD-R media written using Disc At Once. The following table shows how CD-R/RW discs on which audio data is recorded are compatible with CD-RW drives and CD players. Recording Disc At Once (Finalized automatically) CD-R Track At Once Finalized Not yet finalized CD-RW Disc At Once (Finalized automatically) Track At Once : playback possible O: playback possible on most models q: playback possible only on some models ×: playback not possible Playback CD-RW drives CD players O No silence between tracks No silence between tracks Two seconds of silence between tracks O Two seconds of silence between tracks × (may add more data) × q No silence between tracks No silence between tracks CD-RW media does not support Track At Once 180 Operation section