What use is a RW CD if all audio files are read-only?

[greko]

Hi all

First an apology for submitting this in what is probably the wrong section. I tried to get into two more suitable ones but all I got was a blank, blue tinted screen although the bottom of my screen said'done'

So hope someone can help anyway ---- I like to make my own Keep Fit CDs by dowloading music from my laptop (HP with XP o/s) to a CD-RW. All goes well, I rip certain tracks from my bought CDs to the library, save a playlist, burn the playlist to CD-RW. Fine, all OK so far.

Then the class want to add or change some of the music - trying to delete any song files so that I can add a couple of new songs is impossible. Have tried right clicking and untagging the 'read-only' , clicking 'apply' and 'save' but it doesn't change.

I understand this is usual with CDs...!!! Now I might be a silver surfer, but I must moan that the good ol' 3 1/2" floppys gave you none of this hassle! OK I mean data only as they weren't big enough for music files but you could add to and change files at will and just save them again.

Why is something so up-to-date so useless for storing and changing music or any other files I presume? The very words 're-write' lead you to believe you can play about with whatever your data is - just like you did in the past using the floppy. Should I draw this to the attention of those nice Trades Description Act types??? only joking

Hope you can help an ol' codger
cheers
Greko

[RecT]

What music program are you using to do all this?

[greko]

Hi

Thanks for responding - I use windows media player

cheers
greko

[greko]

Hi again,

I thanked you for checking what music software I use but nothing more has come back. Was my answer any help and if so, can you or anyone else yet tell me how to deal with these read-only file problems I'm having??

Many thanks still in hopes...
Greko

[RecT]

Hi Greko,

When you are burning to the CD-RW are you making sure that the burning software knows that it is a CD-RW?

Two different lasers are used when burning on the different disks - if you use the CD-R laser on a CD-RW disk then your CD-RW disk effectively becomes a CD-R disk.

RecT