It was originally developed to store and play back sound recordings only, but the format was later adapted for storage of data ( CD-ROM ), write-once audio and data storage ( CD-R ), rewritable media ( CD-RW ), Video Compact Discs ( VCD ), Super Video Compact Discs ( SVCD ), PhotoCD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced CD.

The CD and its extensions are successful: in 2004, worldwide sales of CD audio, CD-ROM, and CD-R reached about 30 billion discs.

CD-R retains a high level of compatibility with standard CD readers, unlike CD-RW which can be re-written, but is not capable of playing on many readers.

CD-R recording systems available in 1990 were similar to the washing machine-sized Meridian CD Publisher, based on the two-piece rack mount Yamaha PDS audio recorder costing $ 35, 000, not including the required external ECC circuitry for data encoding, SCSI hard drive subsystem, and MS-DOS control computer.

The dye materials developed by Taiyo Yuden made it possible for CD-R discs to be compatible with Audio CD and CD-ROM discs.

The pregroove is not destroyed when the data are written to the CD-R, a point which some copy protection schemes use to distinguish copies from an original CD.

In addition, CPCC also proposed levies of $ 2 to $ 10 for memory cards ( since withdrawn ), 8 cent increases to CD, CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio and MiniDiscs.

Most modern boomboxes include a CD player compatible with CD-R and CD-RW, which allows the user to carry their own music compilations on a higher fidelity medium.

At that point in time although, no company ( not even Sony ) had been successful in creating a CD compatible read-only / read-write format ( equivalent to today's CD-R and CD-RW ).

: The orange book standard references the fact that " Yellow " and " Red " mix to orange ; which means that CD-R and CD-RW is capable of music and data ; although other colors ( other CD standards ) that do not mix are capable of being burned onto the physical medium.

The CD-R had the advantage of existing wide industry standards support ( the Redbook standard for audio discs and the Yellowbook standard for data read-only CD ), with the low-level recording format based upon the popular and low-cost read-only compact disc used for audio and data.

His other releases include a 3 " solo CD, a CD-R with guest contributions by Kevin Drumm and a split LP with Jim O ' Rourke.

** Portable players, more so portable CD players but also some portable DVD players, that invariably include an ASP feature ( Anti-Skip-protection ), struggle with CD-R / RW, DVD-R / RW and DVD + R / RW discs-due to the ASP feature being enabled.

Two years later, MindRec released Meteor Blaster DX on CD-R. Official word was that it was unable to be pressed to CD proper due to the glass mastering software suddenly unable to handle the unorthodox style of CD layout that the system expects.

was a portable CD-R burner that was a similar form factor to that of the Memorex Mini CD player.

It can now be found online under the name The Blank CD referring to the fact that the CD has no artwork or label on it, making it look like a blank CD-R.

Customers who order the CD directly from the label also receive a bonus 23-minute CD-R of other Boon / Crane / Derrick jam sessions and solo live tracks that didn't fit into the original track sequence.

A transport is a device that handles a particular physical storage medium ( such as magnetic tape, audio CD, CD-R, or other type of recordable media ) itself, and extracts or records the information to and from the medium, to ( and from ) an outboard set of processing electronics that the transport is connected to.

With the evolution of consumer digital camera resolution ( megapixels ), the advent of the USB interface and the rise of high-capacity storage media, Mavicas started to offer other alternatives for recording images: the floppy-disk ( FD ) Mavicas began to be Memory Stick compatible ( initially through a Memory Stick Floppy Disk adapter, but ultimately through a dedicated Memory Stick slot ), and a new CD Mavica series — which used 8 cm CD-R / CD-RW media — was released in 2000.

CD-R / RWs are available with capacities of 80 minutes of audio or 737, 280, 000 bytes ( 700 MB ), which they achieve by molding the disc at the tightest allowable tolerances specified in the Orange Book CD-R / CD-RW standards.

A blank CD-R is not " empty "; the pregroove has a wobble ( the ATIP ), which helps the writing laser to stay on track and to write the data to the disc at a constant rate.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Analog cassette deck sales were expected to decline rapidly with the advent of the compact disc and other digital recording technologies such as digital audio tape ( DAT ), MiniDisc, and the CD-R recorder drives.

Canada's current private copying levies are as follows: $ 0. 24 per unit for Audio Cassette tape ( 40min or longer ), and $ 0. 29 per unit for CD-R, CD-RW, CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio and MiniDisc.

By 2000, the entire removable magnetic disk category quickly faced obsolescence by the falling prices of CD-R and CD-RW drives and solid-state ( USB flash drives or USB keydrives ), and the SuperDisk was no exception ; it has since been quietly discontinued, as were the other special disks, which are becoming hard to find.

ISO / IEC 13490 ( also known as ECMA-168 ) is the successor to ISO 9660 ( level 3 ), intended to describe the file system of a CD-ROM or CD-R.

Mount Rainier can be used only with drives that explicitly support it ( a part of SCSI / MMC and can work over ATAPI ), but works with standard CD-R, CD-RW, DVD +/- R and DVD +/- RW media.

Among other things, most motions for summary judgment will require or include: page limits on submissions by counsel ; an instruction to state disputed issues of fact up front ; an instruction to state whether there is a governing case ; an instruction that all summary judgment motions be accompanied by electronic versions ( on a CD-R or DVD-R ), in a chambers-compatible format that includes full pinpoint citations and complete deposition and affidavit excerpts to aid in opinion preparation ; an instruction that all exhibits submitted conform to specific physical characteristics ( i. e. be tabbed with letters or numbers, that pages be sequentially numbered or " Bates-stamped "); an instruction that citations to deposition or affidavit testimony must include the appropriate page or paragraph numbers and that citations to other documents or materials must include pinpoint citations.

The Iomega Zip format ultimately prevailed, with capacities of 100 and 250 megabytes ( plus the rather less popular 750 MB ), but these media and their drives were quickly supplanted by the much slower but far cheaper recordable compact disc CD-R ( early models used a disc caddy to ensure proper alignment ).

It supports rewritable media ( CD-RW, DVD + RW, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, CD-MRW and DVD + MRW ), and from InCD 5. 5 on also writing to write-once media CD-R, DVD + R, DVD-R. Current version 6. 6. 5100 is free and provides Windows XP functionality similar to Live File System in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Verbatim also resells relabeled products from Japanese, Taiwanese, Mainland Chinese, Malaysian and Indian factories ( Pearl White DVD series in Europe, some CD-R not labeled Super Azo ), including but not limited to products by Taiyo Yuden, Ritek Corporation, CMC Magnetics, Prodisc, Moser Baer, Daxon / BenQ.

* 2004-Urban Nightmares ( You and Me ), CD-R

* 2005-Cassette Massacre ( 1992 – 1993 Recovered ), CD-R

There was no copy protection on any of the PC-FX games, because at the time the system was released, the high price of CD-R burners and blank CDs made piracy expensive.

MiniDisc technology was faced with new competition from the recordable compact disc ( CD-R ) when it became more affordable to consumers in 1995.

By the year 2000, King Biscuit was using CD-R media to distribute the show.

A fourth song, " Overload ", was included on the CD-R promotional copies of the EP.

The album was out-of-print for a long time due to being in " legal limbo ", during which time Houston would sell the album in CD-R format directly through her website.

; Unstructured: An unstructured repository may simply be a stack of floppy disks or CD-R / DVD-R media with minimal information about what was backed up and when.

Since affordable CD-R was not available until 1995, DCC and MD were an attempt to bring CD-quality recording to the home consumer.

The rising popularity and decreasing price of CD-R / CD-RW and DVD +- R / DVD +- RW drives greatly hurt the success of the drive since their price per megabyte was much lower and because these discs could be read in almost any standard ROM drive ( irrespective of format ).

The first Cex album, Cells, was a compilation of tracks Kidwell had been working on for several years, and was released in 1998 by his own CD-R label, _underscore, while he was still at Dulaney High School in Timonium, Maryland.

From 2000 to 2003, Lekman recorded and released much of his material privately on CD-R. Because one of his songs during this time was entitled " Rocky Dennis ' Farewell Song to the Blind Girl ", inspired by the movie Mask, Lekman was mistakenly referred to as " Rocky Dennis ".

Paul Weil left the band and was replaced by Joe Halladay, and in 2006 Halladay left the band and was replaced by the visual artist Breck Brunson, whose first recorded tracks appeared on a CD-R the band sold during its 2006 U. S. tour in support of Liars.

The album was re-mastered and three tracks from the CD-R version were replaced with newer ones, including the DFE theme song " D-E-F ".

Due to a flaw in the Dreamcast BIOS, which was intended for use with MIL-CD's, the console can run software from CD-R without the use of a modchip.