when you burn music onto a CD if there's already music on there can you just go over it! or add to it ?

Answer 1

to re use a cd it has to be a CDRW (cd rewrite)

Answer 2

It depends what type of CD's you're burning onto. CD-R's can only be burnt to once effectively, (while you can fill up the disk at a later date, you can't write over it) whereas CD-RW's allow you to write over the data on the disk approximately 10,000 times on good quality discs.

Answer 3

It depends on how you set up your burning software the first time you burn onto the CD. Usually, you can choose an option that allows you to have a multiple session, or you can choose to close the disc to overburning.

Answer 4

If you've made an audo CD, then no, even with a cdrw, if you've just copied mp3s which you could play on say, a dvd player and you've left the session open, then yes you can. But blank cds are dirt cheap these days...

Answer 5

you can add to it only if the original session on the cd was not closed when it was created.
you can only overwrite it if it is a re-writable cd. you will need to use your burning software to format the disc first.

Answer 6

Nothing to add! You got some good answers. Look in your Help section of your burn program for description of "Closing" or " Finalizing". (same thing, just called different names, and that should explain in full.

Happy burning!

Answer 7

Both really, but you have to make sure it's a rewriteable cd.

Answer 8

you can only add if there is enough blank space to take the music files you want to copy

Answer 9

i cant with mine you have to use a brand new disc but you can pick them up fairly cheap anyway

Answer 10

not unless its a re-writable disc. otherwise you're beat