I have a Magnavox CD burner about 6 years old. It grows harder to find the proprietary Audio CDr's to burn in it, and it won't take regular CDr's. Does anyone made a program to prep a regular CDr to burn on this proprietary system? <jksteven@netzero.com>

I found this tidbit on another forum about these "music only" disks: "Physically, they're the same. They record and play back the same, too. The difference is that the 'music only' CD-R's have a special code written to them to prevent a computer CD-R from recording them. In the U.S. they cost more because they're taxed to help compensate the artists and to compensate record companies for (imagined) monetary losses because of all the illegal digital home recording that's going on in teenager's bedrooms around the world." It's my understanding that it isn't "proprietary" as in unique from Magnavox, there are other brands of these "music only" discs which will work in your recorder, but I don't believe anyone provides software which would allow you to write this code to a regular data CD because it is "licensed technology" and would be covered by digital copyright laws. In other words, how could the government collect it's tax if you went out and made your own "music only" cdr disks? I did come across someone claiming that he'd learned that he could put one of these special disks into his recorder and then force the tray open and replace it with a regular cheap disk and the recorder would use it because it had already checked and found this special code. That is just heresay on my part, but if it gets where your no longer concerned about damaging your recorder then it won't hurt to try.

It would make sense to go to your local computer repair shop and pick up a second-hand CD Writer for $10 and swap the old one out. Or new ones are only about $35. It's one of the easiest upgrades you can do. It's easier to find CD's for a generic writer and they're less expensive.