>You can only store 4 sessions on a CDR and the one your talking about for the label would count as the first one. Also, why not just auto-create the label if the CDR is blank? As well, during any of the sessions you can change the label when you write that session. As well, if you put the CD into a single session compatible CD drive, you will only see the first empty session (yes I know most new drives are multi-session). Unless your writing something like almost a third of the CD each time you will end up wasting most of the CD, in which case, as cheap as the CDR's are now, I would just use a new one each time and put a label on it that matched when the archive was being done (most CDR writing software defaults to the date and time). Otherwise, I would CDRW media and drives to get the most storage out of them.
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hello Cy -

so far, i'm using WSH to drive the DirectCD software provided with the
CDR drive. yes, it's terminology is to "format" the cd. the option is
to format it and leave it open so i can just copy as many files to the
CD as i want. then close it. so i guess from your description that is
a single session -- correct ? this arrangement is acceptable for me,
because i won't even start to create a CD until i have accumulated
more than enough material to fill a single CD.

i appreciate the info you provided. based on that, i see that i need
to do a little more research to see what all options are available
and how they compare.

thanks,