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It's not a CD-RW.
Not worth ibuying.
CD-R works better in my car and Discman
You have a discman? Cooooool!
CD-RW quality only approached "worth a shit" around the time DVD-R became common, and still didn't work in most devices.
Lol, what about cd+rw? Didn't those have better compatibility?
I honestly could barely remember that there were two, let alone which was better.
I do remember the better one was pointlessly more expensive. For the same price, I could usually get twice as many CD-Rs when I needed more, although it might come down to whether I wanted them with cases or on a spindle.
CD-RW was generally more of a gimmick than a useful format - especially once flash drives appeared and then doubled in size every several months.
CD-R was king for burning audio CDs or general data (until DVD-R came along).
cd-rw were very useful when internets were dialled-up (or later ADSL) and you were working on large image files on different desktops
gimmick was the zip drive ☞
CD-RW was the lifeblood of my mp3-discman, i just loved to be able to add songs i just discovered!