CD says 100MB used while empty preventing burn

[Kanna]

So my DVD or CD or what it is is 800MB (yes it's small) and it says space on it has been used which is preventing me from burning music onto it with media player please help with any solution

[pythonmegapixel]

The CD you are trying to use is probably a non-rewritable one and has had data written to it in the past. The solution is to use a fresh CD.

[WhitetailAni]

First off, I've never heard of an 800MB CD. I know of 650MB and 700MB CDs, but never an 800MB one.

Also, only CD-RWs can be rewritten. If you have a CD-R, you may be able to add data, but it's not removable. What exactly are you trying to burn to it?

[Kanna]

1 minute ago, pythonmegapixel said:

The CD you are trying to use is probably a non-rewritable one and has had data written to it in the past. The solution is to use a fresh CD.

That sucks big time because this is not used ever to my knowledge, the cover thing in explorer says CD-ROM but the label is DVD-RW is that because it's what my disc drive supports?

[Kanna]

1 minute ago, FakeKGB said:

First off, I've never heard of an 800MB CD. I know of 650MB and 700MB CDs, but never an 800MB one.

Also, only CD-RWs can be rewritten. If you have a CD-R, you may be able to add data, but it's not removable. What exactly are you trying to burn to it?

I'm trying to burn music

[mariushm]

What he says ^ .

 

You can create multi-session CD-R / DVD-R / DVD+R discs, which allows you to burn a disc partially and add files to it at a later time, or delete previously burned files (the file names are simply removed from list of contents, physically the old content is still on disc).

Once the disc is finalized, you can no longer add files to it.  Basically, think of it like when you want to add files to the disc, the burner / software reads the list of files, burns the new files, adds the new files to the list of contents and burns a fresh copy of the list of contents... you'll always see the newest list of contents.

 

DVD-RW discs won't play in CD players. 

If it's actually DVD-RW  or CD-RW , you can copy the existing content to your PC then format the disc and burn the new files along with the old content on the disc.

 

[pythonmegapixel]

3 minutes ago, Kanna said:

That sucks big time because this is not used ever to my knowledge, the cover thing in explorer says CD-ROM but the label is DVD-RW is that because it's what my disc drive supports?

What is written on the actual physical disc?

 

It would have to be a very strange and nonstandard DVD to have a capacity of only 800MB. But then, data CDs have a capacity of 700MB so.... who knows!

 

Optical drives usually report themselves to the operating system as the highest standard of media that they support, rather than the media that is in the drive at that moment - in this case this would be DVD-RW, which explains why that's appearing.

 

Can you try another CD, preferably one from a sealed package, and see what happens?

[Kanna]

4 minutes ago, mariushm said:

What he says ^ .

 

You can create multi-session CD-R / DVD-R / DVD+R discs, which allows you to burn a disc partially and add files to it at a later time, or delete previously burned files (the file names are simply removed from list of contents, physically the old content is still on disc).

Once the disc is finalized, you can no longer add files to it.  Basically, think of it like when you want to add files to the disc, the burner / software reads the list of files, burns the new files, adds the new files to the list of contents and burns a fresh copy of the list of contents... you'll always see the newest list of contents.

 

DVD-RW discs won't play in CD players. 

If it's actually DVD-RW  or CD-RW , you can copy the existing content to your PC then format the disc and burn the new files along with the old content on the disc.

 

I know that I selected live storage in windows which made some weird thing and dropped a song there which ofc none of my players could see, there is no content on the CD as of now that I can see

3 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

What is written on the actual physical disc?

 

It would have to be a very strange and nonstandard DVD to have a capacity of only 800MB. But then, data CDs have a capacity of 700MB so.... who knows!

 

Optical drives usually report themselves to the operating system as the highest standard of media that they support, rather than the media that is in the drive at that moment - in this case this would be DVD-RW, which explains why that's appearing.

 

Can you try another CD, preferably one from a sealed package, and see what happens?

As in written you mean text it's a blank one where you write something with a marker, it is very strange indeed with the capacity, figured that was the case because I have a slimline DVD-RW in my PC, I don't have a brand-new CD anywhere only like DVD-R that is probably not new 

[Eigenvektor]

29 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

First off, I've never heard of an 800MB CD. I know of 650MB and 700MB CDs, but never an 800MB one.

High-capacity CD-Rs with 800 MB/90 min do indeed exist: https://www.techinn.com/en/philips-cd-r-800mb-high-capacity-multi-speed-25-units/137848741/p

[Sauron]

37 minutes ago, Kanna said:

That sucks big time because this is not used ever to my knowledge, the cover thing in explorer says CD-ROM but the label is DVD-RW is that because it's what my disc drive supports?

If it says CD-ROM then it's a CD-ROM. The label must be wrong.

[CerealExperimentsLain]

17 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

High-capacity CD-Rs with 800 MB/90 min do indeed exist: https://www.techinn.com/en/philips-cd-r-800mb-high-capacity-multi-speed-25-units/137848741/p

Even 99 min discs exist.  I have 128GB BDXLs on my desk, but I still kinda wanna get some 99min discs just to goof around with for fun.

[Kanna]

17 minutes ago, Sauron said:

If it says CD-ROM then it's a CD-ROM. The label must be wrong.

Nah I figured out what it was it was what my DVD player in PC was and not that the disc was DVD-RW

[Kilrah]

1 hour ago, Kanna said:

I know that I selected live storage in windows

Then you turned the disc into basically the ancestor of a USB drive where you can drop files one at a time instead of burning the disc in one go. That will not be readable by music players and the whole filesystem to handle that is why it used some space.

If your music player can view directories/files you need to use the other mode, where you burn the disc in one go. If it needs an actual audio CD then you need 3rd party software, Windows can't burn those natively.

[Kanna]

2 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Then you turned the disc into basically the ancestor of a USB drive where you can drop files one at a time instead of burning the disc in one go. That will not be readable by music players and the whole filesystem to handle that is why it used some space.

If your music player can view directories/files you need to use the other mode, where you burn the disc in one go. If it needs an actual audio CD then you need 3rd party software, Windows can't burn those natively.

What software would you recommend so I can normally burn songs onto it?

[mariushm]

I use imgBurn - it's freeware The Official ImgBurn Website

 

During the installation, a page in the setup process may offer to install Google Toolbar or a free antivirus, but just pay attention at the screen and click on the Skip or Cancel or uncheck and it will not install anything you don't want.

Otherwise it's completely free and legit and safe and very good.

 

For regular files and folders , or to make a cd with mp3 files on it (if the cd player can play back mp3 files), you can simply use  "Write files/folders to disc"

For audio cd  as in a disc with audio tracks, and up to 74-99 minutes of audio, you have to use Tools > Create CUE file...

 

 

A window like the one below will open up, and you can simply drag your mp3 files into that big empty space and wait a bit for the program to scan them ...

You have below an example.

You can add a gap between songs, or set to 0 if you want to play as a whole disc mix without pauses between songs

You can enable cd-text if you want and fill up artist and song title if your cd player supports it

When done, hit OK and save it somewhere as a cue file.

 

 

Now you can go back in the main interface and select  "Write image file to disc" and select the CUE file :

 

 

Select at Source your CUE file and then select burn speed from the right (for >80min I'd suggest sticking to minimum speed supported by disc, probably 8x or something like that) and then hit the big button at the bottom of the window

 

 

 

 

later edit:  Also imgburn supports other formats besides mp3, as long as there's direct show codecs installed for that extension. The author of the software gives some links for some directShow codecs but keep in mind the post is from 2009 ... scroll to the bottom, last post :

 

https://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?/topic/5555-how-to-write-an-audio-cd-from-music-files-using-imgburn/