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  2. CD-R - Wikipedia

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    A CD-R can be recorded in multiple sessions. A CD recorder can write to a CD-R using several methods including: Disc At Once – the whole CD-R is written in one session with no gaps and the disc is "closed" meaning no more data can be added and the CD-R effectively becomes a standard read-only CD. With no gaps between the tracks, the Disc At ...

  3. Compact disc - Wikipedia

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    The compact disc ( CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It uses the Compact Disc Digital Audio format which typically provides 74 minutes of audio on a disc.

  4. Compact disc manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Compact disc manufacturing is the process by which commercial compact discs (CDs) are replicated in mass quantities using a master version created from a source recording. This may be either in audio form ( CD-DA) or data form ( CD-ROM ). This process is used in the mastering of read-only compact discs. DVDs and Blu-rays use similar methods ...

  5. Shaped compact disc - Wikipedia

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    A shaped compact disc is a non-circular compact disc. Examples include business card CDs, CDs in the shape of a star, a map of a country, interview material and more. These discs are usually made for marketing purposes and are properly read by most CD-ROM drives (and audio CD players, although custom-shaped CDs tend to contain less data).

  6. Compact Disc Digital Audio - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Compact Disc Digital Audio ( CDDA or CD-DA ), also known as Digital Audio Compact Disc or simply as Audio CD, is the standard format for audio compact discs. The standard is defined in the Red Book, one of a series of Rainbow Books (named for their binding colors) that contain the technical specifications for all CD formats.

  7. CD player - Wikipedia

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    A CD player is an electronic device that plays audio compact discs, which are a digital optical disc data storage format. CD players were first sold to consumers in 1982. CDs typically contain recordings of audio material such as music or audiobooks. CD players may be part of home stereo systems, car audio systems, personal computers, or ...

  8. Optical storage media writing and reading speed - Wikipedia

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    25.0 GB. 23.28 GiB. 90. Modern compact discs support a writing speed of 52× and higher, with some modern DVDs supporting speeds of up to 24×. [4] Writing a DVD at 1× ( 1 385 000 bytes per second) [5] is approximately 9 times faster than writing a CD at 1× ( 153 600 bytes per second ). [6] However, the actual speeds depend on the type of ...

  9. CD-Text - Wikipedia

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    CD-Text is an extension of the Red Book Compact Disc specifications standard for audio CDs. It allows storage of additional information (e.g. album name, song name, and artist name) on a standards-compliant audio CD. The specification for CD-Text was included in the Multi-Media Commands Set 3 R01 (MMC-3) standard, released in September 1996 and ...