Copying them onto a computer file -- also known as 'ripping' a CD -- is simple.
The program supports CD-R and CD-RW drives, Iomega (Zip, Jaz, etc.) drives, and several portable MP3 players.
We then install each drive, noting any difficulties, and load the bundled software for CD-R and CD-RW writing.
These often include features the lightweights lack, especially CD-ROM, DVD or CD-RW drives.
Some existing CD-RW drives require that the whole CD-RW disc be erased before new data can be written to it.
We had the worst experiences with Ricoh's Media Master MP-6200S, a CD-RW drive, and MicroNet's Master CD Plus 4X12PC, a CD-R model.
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If you're looking for a CD-RW drive to share with others, check out the external version of this drive, HP's CD-Writer Plus 7200e.
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Pioneer also offers the CD-IV202AV (for use with 2013 multimedia DVD receivers and the AVH-P8400BH) and CD-IV202NAVI (for use with the AVIC-X850BT and 2012 in-dash navigation receivers).
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It also includes an audio cable you can connect to your sound card so you can listen to music on the CD-R drive while using your CD-ROM for other tasks.
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The smaller models of this product family come only with a basic CD-ROM drive, but the CD-RW in the larger models really comes in handy when making your own videos.
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Unless you're burning from downloaded (perhaps pirated) songs, you'll have to go through the process of transforming CD song files into MP3s and then burning them onto CD-R or CD-RW disks.
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The Vaio Digital Studio 547 computer includes a 500MHz Pentium III processor, 128 MB of RAM, a 8x DVD-ROM drive, a 4x Rewritable CD (CD-RW) drive, and a 20 GB hard drive.
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From the 1980s, when computer-based education started to be delivered through CD-ROMs, e-learning has boomed, paving the way for several private players and government agencies which create and deliver e-learning systems today.
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It comes complete with 15- or 14.1-inch displaces, Mobile P4 processors, up to 40 MB of storage and a choice of CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD or a drive that can handle all of the above.
We test CD-ROM read performance with Testa Labs' CD-Tach 98 2.0 software, and we gauge CD-R performance by writing 430MB of data to CD-R twice: once from an image file and once on the fly.
The player supports several types of discs including DVD-Audio, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, CD-R and CD-RW. There's also an SD Memory card slot, so you can look at photos you may have saved from a digital camera.
Indeed, though there's no denying music's old business model has taken a massive hit in recent years--blame it on piracy, the Web or the advent of the recordable CD--there's still plenty of money to be made in the music industry.
Now, about that little bulge at the base of the screen... just run your fingers beneath it to liberate a built-in, lighted disc tray "without so much as a whisper" ready for DVD or CD playback -- DivX, MP3, JPEG and Video CDs all supported.
We judge CD-RW packet-writing performance by copying a folder containing 100MB of files to a CD-RW disc three times: first to the newly formatted blank disc, again after deleting the files from the first copy operation, and finally by overwriting the files from the second operation.
Once you're done risking everyone's life talking on the phone, fire up your Bluetooth-equipped DAP -- or just stick in a CD -- and you can stream high-fidelity audio throughout your ride, while checking out on-screen track info and navigating your music with the wireless remote.
Next week at Comdex, Verbatim will roll out the 4420, which the company claims is the first CD-RW drive that offers 4X write on both CD-R and CD-RW media. (Current drives are limited to 2X write speeds for CD-RW.) The drive reads CD-ROMs, CD-R, and CD-RW media at 20X.
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Art lovers who miss the exhibitions will have to resort to an accompanying catalog, Pre-War Balinese Modernists 1928-1942, and CD-ROM.
It reads DVD- and CD-ROMs, and its MPEG decoder interface connected seamlessly to the ATI video card.
But random erase is becoming more common, and is, for example, available in the current generation of Hewlett-Packard CD-RW drives.
Verbatim will also introduce new 4X-certified CD-RW media at Comdex.
Think of it: you can toss that kludgey 20-disk CD-changer out of the car boot and still have every tune you own at your disposal when on the road.
Like CD-RW on steroids, DVD-RAM drives can record and rewrite up to 5.2GB on one double-sided disc--more than eight times the capacity of a CD.
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