Methods for establishing recording rates of optical media recorders

A method for recording data to optical media, comprising:

• determining a length of a single audio file;
• performing a test burn without recording data of the single audio file to the optical media;
• measuring an amount of time required to decode the single audio file during the test burn;
• and
• calculating a codec decoding factor, the codec decoding factor being equal to the length of the single audio file divided by the amount of time required to decode the single audio file.

A method for recording data to optical media, comprising:

• determining a length of a single audio file;
• determining a system configuration factor of a host computer system;
• measuring an amount of time required to decode the single audio file;
• calculating a codec decoding factor, the codec decoding factor being equal to the length of the single audio file divided by the amount of time required to decode the single audio file;
• and
• multiplying the system configuration factor by the codec decoding factor to produce an optimized codec decoding factor.

Computer readable media having program instructions for recording data to optical media, the computer readable media comprising:

• program instructions for determining a length of a single audio file;
• program instructions for performing a test burn without recording data of the single audio file to the optical media;
• program instructions for measuring an amount of time required to decode the single audio file during the test burn;
• and
• program instructions for calculating a codec decoding factor, the codec decoding factor being equal to the length of the single audio file divided by the amount of time required to decode the single audio file.