What is the difference between CD-R/RW and Audio CD-R/RW?
Once you’ve completed the recording process on a home recorder or a PC, a disc will play either in a PC or any other CD player. In blank form, though, PC data discs and CD-R (or CD-RW Audio) audio discs are very different, and it’s important to choose the right one. CD-R and CD-RW discs for home recorders incorporate the Serial Copy Management System (SCMS), a technology that gives the recording industry a way to share royalties from copied music and to prevent widespread digital copying (You can only make one digital copy of a CD. Copies of copies are analog copies and not perfect replicas of the original). You pay for SCMS in the form of higher blank disc prices. PC data discs don’t incorporate SCMS and are less expensive. Home CD-R recorders will only record onto blank discs that incorporate SCMS technology. Those discs are labeled “for music,” “for audio” or “for consumer use.” If you try to record a cheaper CD-R data disc (for PCs) in a home CD recorder, you’ll get an error messag
