You would have to look into your code to confirm whether or not it would be good . 666philb can tell how he came up with the hint. My experience is this: I burnt 2 CD-RWs uing pBurn-4-?, resulting in potential coasters . I have already told how I came to revitalized one RW. On getting Phil's hint, I launched pBurn-3.7.18 (with ffmpeg-avconv link), inserted the bad CD-RW, clicked the "Blank disc" tab, and on the Blank disc dialogbox [Blank (erase) disc tab] selected 'blank complete', changed the media type to CD and it worked. That's all I know.Does this mean: If I remove the CD-audio option as mediatype (set it to CD instead) everything would be good ?B.K. JohnsonThanks for this tip. It worked Cool . Kinda funny though, that in order to blank a rewriteable one has to tell the software that it's a CD, a media type we all know can't be erased Rolling Eyes#666philb
when blanking change 'audio cd' to 'CD' in the 'media type' box
I agree, there is no logic in providing CD-audio as an option.
I doubted very much that you'd have set "audio CD" as the default mediatype. I suspected that when I inserted the audio CD (on RW) the program logic considered it a read only CD because it was an 'audio CD', and displayed that in the usage meter. I guessed the Blank disc screen then "picked up" this media type. To test my "hypothesis" I tried different media types. The results are shown in the accompanying screenie (pB_mediatype_disp):
It is obvious that when the 'Blank disc' tab is clicked the mediatype has already been determined and brought forward. Removing 'Audio CD' option as you contemplate would not make sense unless you don't test specifically for an audio CD, in which case the media is either CD or DVD; recordable or rewritable. Then on the 'Blank disc' screen you would have the incongruity of having CD and DVD recordables in the drive when the user clicks the burn icon. I submit to you zigbert that this should not be so. The problem is that at no time prior to calling the blanking routine does the code test for Rewriteable media; it tests for Audio CD, CD and DVD. Note that when an Audio CD is created on a DVD, 'DVD' appears as the mediatype in the 'Blank disc' screen, NOT 'Audio CD'.
FACT: The only media that is blankable is rewriteables. I suggest that you test early for rewritable media (CD or DVD) and set a flag. I would leave the meter display as it is now: Audio CD, CD Closed, CD or DVD. When the option to blank a disc is selected, the first thing the routine should do is check the flag. if the flag is not set, send an error message (media is not erasble) and exit the blank selection. Since you know at this stage that the media is CD-RW or DVD-RW, there is no need for a drop-down box for the user doesn't have a selection to make. A simple statement: 'Mediatype is CD Rewritable' or 'DVD Rewritable' would suffice. But if you insist, keep the drop-down menu populated with Audio CD, CD or DVD. There would be no confusion since now it would be clearly understood that although the mediatype is audio cd, it is erasable.
B.K. Johnson
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