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CD-R vs. CD-RW
Why would anyone use CD-R if you can only record once? Also, can you keep recording on CD-R till it is full, or do you only get one shot, whether it's one song or fifteen?
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I disagree with "you get one shot to record to it and this is it".. You can do multisessions with BOTH CD-R and CD-RW as long as the disc has not been closed by the software. The only difference between CD-R and CD-RW is that you can FORMAT CD-RW (this works exactly like floppy disk). CD-Rs are stardard CD-ROM, what I mean by this is Home/Car cd-players, Playstation, cd-rom that don't do multiread, and other kinds of hardwares cannot read CD-RWs (some of the new DVD players can but it's no use). I only use CD-RW as my temporary storage.
Hum.. accepted an answer that is wrong.
He wanted a basic answer to what is different and I gave him that, It also depends on the software that your using, the model and software I have allows only a one shot deal. Once writing to the disk, it can not be re recorded to.