- Burning ISO image/other non-music content as track-at-once or disc-at-once ?
- Posted by Thomas Blabb on September 26th, 2005
My burning program (Nero) offers two methods of burning onto a CD/DVD:
track-at-once
disc-at-once
Which one should I take?
Does it matter for an ISO image (which should always be burning as No-Multisession)?
What are the differences for an ISO image?
What are the differences for other (non-music) content?
How about the "Finalize" option. Should the CD/DVD be finalized when burning an ISO image onto a
non-Multisession medium?
Thomas
- Posted by Lil' Dave on September 26th, 2005
"Thomas Blabb" <t.blabb@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4337b339$0$26218$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net...
> My burning program (Nero) offers two methods of burning onto a CD/DVD:
>
> track-at-once
> disc-at-once
>
Disc at once for drag and drop file burning. Track at once can be finicky.
> Which one should I take?
>
> Does it matter for an ISO image (which should always be burning as
No-Multisession)?
>
Yes. An ISO image is a copy of a CD/DVD. If further writing is
anticipated, it is no longer a copy.
> What are the differences for an ISO image?
>
Other than how to get to the correct menu, and selecting an ISO image to
burn, very little.
> What are the differences for other (non-music) content?
>
Assumng you're using Nero Burning Rom, should be rather obvious in the menu
selection on the left.
> How about the "Finalize" option. Should the CD/DVD be finalized when
burning an ISO image onto a
> non-Multisession medium?
>
A non-multisession indicates no further burning anticipated. Why would you
NOT finalize it?
What's all this have to do with XP?
- Posted by Yves Leclerc on September 26th, 2005
ISO image burning will/should not give the option to do 1) Track/Disk at
once AND 2) Finalize.
ISO image is an exact copy of the original CD / DVD that the image was taken
from. Since you want to duplicate the original, the image file burning will
be done with the original settings (ie: Boot or no Boot, Disk or Track at
once, Finalize or not Finalized).
AS for understanding Multisessions and Finalize options, here is some
basics:
1) Use multisession option if you are going to use the media in the same
drive to add info to it. Do not finalize multisessions discs.
2) You Finalize CDs/DVDs if:
1) Not a multisession disk.
2) To be used on other systems (not on CD/DVD burners)
3) Disk to be played on standard audio CD player or DVD TV top
box.
"Thomas Blabb" <t.blabb@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4337b339$0$26218$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net...
> My burning program (Nero) offers two methods of burning onto a CD/DVD:
>
> track-at-once
> disc-at-once
>
> Which one should I take?
>
> Does it matter for an ISO image (which should always be burning as
> No-Multisession)?
>
> What are the differences for an ISO image?
>
> What are the differences for other (non-music) content?
>
> How about the "Finalize" option. Should the CD/DVD be finalized when
> burning an ISO image onto a
> non-Multisession medium?
>
> Thomas
>
- Posted by Stan Brown on September 26th, 2005
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:33:39 -0400 in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, Yves Leclerc favored us with...
> ISO image burning will/should not give the option to do 1) Track/Disk at
> once AND 2) Finalize.
And yet I burned a Knoppix Live CD from downloaded ISO image, using
NTI CD and DVD Maker. The burning software proposed track-at-once and
closing the session but not the disk. That seemed odd to em, but I
tried it and the disk boots just fine.
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Fortunately, I live in the United States of America, where we are
gradually coming to understand that nothing we do is ever our
fault, especially if it is really stupid. --Dave Barry
