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Enhanced Music CD, also known as CD Extra or CD Plus, is a format that combines audio tracks and data tracks on the same disc by putting audio tracks in a first session and data in a second session. It was developed by Philips and Sony, and it is defined in the Blue Book.
A photo of a theatrical DTS CD-ROM disc used for the original 1993 release of Jurassic Park Digital. Digital Theatre System (DTS), Sony Dynamic Digital Sound (SDDS), MPEG-1 Audio Layer III (MP3) 1994 TwinVQ: Digital. 1995 RealAudio [3] 1997 DTS-CD: Digital. DTS audio 1998 WavPack (file format) Digital.
Below is a table of online music databases that are largely free of charge. Many of the sites provide a specialized service or focus on a particular music genre . Some of these operate as an online music store or purchase referral service in some capacity.
An album (Latin albus, white), in ancient Rome, was a board chalked or painted white, on which decrees, edicts, and other public notices were inscribed in black.It was from this that in medieval and modern times, album came to denote a book of blank pages in which verses, autographs, sketches, photographs and the like are collected. [9]
By 1988, CD sales in the United States surpassed those of vinyl LPs, and, by 1992, CD sales surpassed those of prerecorded music-cassette tapes. [22] [23] The success of the compact disc has been credited to the cooperation between Philips and Sony, which together agreed upon and developed compatible hardware. The unified design of the compact ...
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 portable CD players such as CD boomboxes. Most CD players produce an output signal via a headphone jack or RCA jacks.
This is a list of the world's best-selling albums of recorded music in physical mediums, such as vinyl, audio cassettes or compact discs. To appear on the list, the figure must have been published by a reliable source and the album must have sold at least 20 million copies and certified at least 10 million units (the equivalent of a diamond ...
A CD single is a music single in the form of a compact disc (CD). Originally the CD single standard (as defined in the Red Book ) was an 8 cm (3-inch) " mini CD " ( CD3 ); [ 1 ] later on the term referred to any single recorded onto a CD of any size, particularly the 12 cm (5-inch) "full-size" disc ( CD5 ).