Answers mixed in.
            Rick Glazier
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From: "Sarah Cloud" <[log in to unmask]>
>1)Can you record audio CDs on a CD-RW disc
                You can.
>and will they play in any standard CD player?
                "Generally not", (but my brother can play
                  them in a car CD-Player, and I have used some
                  in a Sony Boom Box...   Ummm...)
                  There is a small new breed of players that support
                   both types of CD disks, and even some add MP3
                   file playing (audio) as data files...

>2)Can you record audio CDs on a CD-R disc from a CD-RW drive
>and will they play in any standard CD player?
                   A good quality CD-R disk will tend to play anywhere a
                   factory pressed disk will... (sometimes...)

>3)Can you download MP3's and burn them onto CDs with a CD-RW drive?
                   Yes, but play compatability is MUCH better on CD-R disks.

>4)Can you backup data, like save files, onto CD-RW discs?
                   Yes, at least two different ways. As a regular data CD-RW disk, and
                    as a packet written CD-RW disk.

        All of the above requires special software, and is a crap shoot...
        Compatibility is a "problem", and your system must be "clean and mean..."
        This is one of those computer areas that you have to experiment, and get
         good at it...

                               Rick Glazier

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