Questions tagged [compact-disc]
Compact Disc or CD is a type of optical physical media that can hold digital data (data, music, video). Standard CDs can hold up to 700MB of data, or 80 minutes of audio if converted to an audio-CD.
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.cda music files on commercial audio CD are not recognized with their media information
I recently purchased a Commercial Audio CD. When I load the CD through an external CD drive in Windows 11, it reads properly, but doesn't detect the music info from that commercial CD.
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CD metadata not retrievable with WMP
As of a few days ago Windows Media Player no longer retrieves CD metadata when ripping CDs. This is due to the disconnection of the server that used to store that data. There appears to be no timeline ...
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How to convert an MP3 CD into a regular (Red Book) audio CD?
I have a CD-ROM on which three MP3 files are stored.
When I put it into the player of my car, the music starts playing.
When I put it into an old CD-player (bought somewhere between 1990 and 2000, I ...
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How to create a bootable CD that automatically starts a DOS application
I have a bootable ISO file that I want to burn to a CD. I'd like it to start an application on the disc when it boots.
I extracted the img file from the ISO using 7-Zip. If I burn a CD in CDBurnerXP ...
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Does full erase create all 0s or all 1s on the CD-RW?
Disclaimer: there was this question, it was deleted before I managed to post an answer. Since I put effort in creating my answer and I don't want it to go down the drain, I re-post the question here.
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Why is it when I load an old CD-R, I can see files in file explorer, but all files are unreadable and CD-R is reported as empty?
As per title, I have an old CD-R (from the late 2000s) that I want recover some data from. The CD-R is in good conditions and doesn't show any signs of diskrot, but it was stored in a relatively humid ...
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Can I write (200 MB - 150 min) music to a (700 MB - 80 min) CD?
I have mp3 songs of audio quality 320 kbps. The total size of the songs is around 200 MBs with a total playing time of around 150 minutes.
Can I write these songs to an audio CD, whose specs are ...
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Why do CDs and DVDs fill up from the centre outwards?
I recently had to burn a DVD for the first time in ages and I was wondering why CDs and DVDs start in the centre and go towards the edge.
Older rotating-disc media like vinyl records started from the ...
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How to verify data copied from CD/DVD to HDD?
How can I verify that data files copied from an optical data disc (such as a CD or DVD) to a hard disk are identical?
This can easily be done for data files copied from one HDD to another using ...
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Why can't we write over a CD/DVD after it's been burned/finalized?
I was wondering why CD/DVD burners can't just overwrite a CD or DVD after it's been finalized and set to read-only mode. I understand that read-only mode prevents further writes, but can't a burner ...
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Copy program from CD to USB but can't launch program after installation in window-10
I transferred the files from the CD to the USB, then installed the computer, which did not have a DVD/CD drive. However, after the installation, after I click the.exe file, it looks for a CD/DVD drive....
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Will there ever be faster CD and DVD discs and writers?
I was thinking about the fact that in the last years I have never seen CDs and DVDs supporting writing/reading speeds higher than 52X and 16X, respectively.
Is this a commercial choice (i.e. ...
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Pen Drive recognized as Cd-ROM
As I mentioned above, my pendrive is recognized as cd-rom on my Win11 OS. And since it is recognized as CD-ROM, I can't format it, can't list in diskpart, or disk management tool. Even Minitool ...
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How to destroy a CD/DVD rom safely?
I have old CDs/DVDs which have some backups, these backups have some work and personal files. I always had problems when I needed to physically destroy them to make sure no one will reuse them.
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"Windows Disc Image Burner" missing from both windows 10 and windows 11
I can't find Windows Disc Image Burner on either of my Window 10 machines or Windows 11 machine. Do I need to pick something in add/remove windows features or something?
It's not just missing from ...
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