Please read on in: Problems concerning the Cover-editor.
Some CD-ROMs have problems reading certain makes of blank. Unfortunately this also depends on which CD Writer the blank was written on with. Please resort to another make of blank and burn with it. There are however also CD-ROM drives which do not accept any blanks (but this is rare). In contrast, CD-RWs are frequently not recognized by CD-ROM drives. Refer also to Problems with recognizing burned CDs
If you insert a CD and want to look at the structure of the CD in CD-Recorder->CD-Info , then you will often find unexpectedly high values there.
This is not an error as many people assume but corrresponds with reality. Reason: the number of writable blocks on a CD may always be the same but the stored useful information per Block varies depending on the data format (see Block)
examples (a 74 minute CD with 333000blocks is presumed):
Re Audio: See: Why can you fit significantly more than 650MB of audio data on the CD?
Data format |
Useable data per Block |
Capacity in MB |
Audio CD |
2352 |
747MB |
Mode 1 CD |
2048 |
650MB |
Mode 2 |
2336 |
742MB |
Mode 2/XA 1 |
2048 |
650MB |
Mode 2/XA 2 |
2324 |
738MB |
Usually between 652 and 658MB fit on a CD so that the values increase by a few MBs.
Please note: If you create a multisession CD in mode 2 format, then you will still not be able to store more information on the CD than if you select mode 1.
Reason: If it were permitted to save more, then this would be at the expense of the correctness of the data as the additional 276 Bytes are there to support error recognition and error correction. Apart from that, Windows itself would no longer be able to read the files, if more than 2048 Bytes were to be saved in a Block unless the data were to be saved as a video stream in which incorrect values would hardly be noticed. If it is data that is saved, then an incorrect bit is already enough to cause the computer to crash.