Cd Recording
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Cd Recording
CD recording has become increasingly popular for a number of reasons. For one, they are extremely cheap. With a mail in rebate its possible to get them for ten cents a disk. A lot of that is due to the simplicity in design. Theyre slim. Which means they can be carried easily. A CD can store a vast amount of data. You could put the same information on one CD that it would take hundreds of floppies to hold. CDs can be used in a wide variety of components. You can play them in your car stereo, on your home stereo, on your computer, in your DVD player, or even game consoles.
This site was designed to help clear up some of the confusion that has to do with recording CDs. We are going to look at some CD formats, different types of recording software, choosing media, and storage options.
CD Formats
With all of the different type of CDs available there are many formats. A good thing about recording software is it will handle all of the formatting details for you. But it still is an interesting topic to know.
A quick summary of standards:
Red Book
physical format for audio CDs (aka CD-DA)
Yellow Book
physical format for data CDs
Green Book
physical format for CD-i
Orange Book
physical format for recordable CDs
Part I
CD-MO (Magneto-Optical)
Part II
CD-WO (Write-Once; includes hybrid spec for PhotoCD)
Part III
CD-RW (ReWritable)
White Book
format for VideoCD (often written VCD)
Blue Book
CD Extra (occasionally used to refer to LaserDisc format)
CD Extra
a two-session CD, 1st is CD-DA, 2nd is data (a/k/a CD Plus)
CD-ROM/XA
eXtended Architecture, a bridge between Yellow Book and CD-i
MODE-1
standard Yellow Book sectors
MODE-2
may be of form-1 or form-2
FORM-1
2048 bytes of data, with error correction, for data
FORM-2
2324 bytes of data, no ecc, for audio/video
ISO-9660
file layout standard (evolved from High Sierra format)
Rock Ridge
extensions allowing long filenames and UNIX-style symlinks
CD-RFS
Sony's incremental packet-writing filesystem
CD-UDF
industry-standard incremental packet-writing filesystem
CD-Text
Philips' std for encoding disc and track data on audio CDs
One way to identify the type of CD is to look at the logo. To find out if a component can utilize the special features on a certain type of CD you can look at logo on the front of the component. A good example is the CD-Text CDs and players. Many of the new car and home CD players have the CD-Text label on the front of them. This means the pla...
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