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Chapter 5: Drive Setup: Suggested Settings 187
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Drive Setup: Suggested Settings
Overview
CDT’s default settings do quite well for most CDs, but it may be possible to
fine-tune settings for smoother operation and greater speed. This section con-
tains charts with suggested settings for nine types of CDs:
Upgrade to the full version of CDT and customize settings for each of your compact discs.
Type of CD Description
Games Highly interactive CDs with lots of multimedia, sound, animations, and movies.
Interactive children’s stories and educational CDs Moderately interactive CDs with text, sound, and some animation.
Encyclopedias Moderately interactive CDs with text, sound, animations, and movies.
Text-only linked databases CDs with many text files and some interactivity: you can search and jump from one
location to another, such as CDs containing abstracts of articles.
Shareware CDs with lots of non-interactive files (and consequently lots of file icons), such as text
and downloadable applications.
Photo CDs CDs with lots of files, each containing one photograph.
Desktop recorded (homemade) CDs CDs that have been recorded in a nonprofessional, noncommercial setting, such as
business archives or system backups.
CD Extra™ CDs (previously known as CD Plus) CDs that combine digital audio and digital data in two sessions. Audio data occupies
session 1; digital data occupies session 2.
ActiveAudio-type CDs CDs that combine digital audio and digital data. Digital data occupies the space
preceding track 1. Audio data occupies tracks 1 and up.
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