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2. Compact Disc Digital Audio - Wikipedia

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   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 .

3. Audiobook - Wikipedia

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   An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud. A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements. Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops since the 1930s.

4. Compact disc - Wikipedia

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   For the first few years of its existence, the CD was a medium used purely for audio. In 1988, the Yellow Book CD-ROM standard was established by Sony and Philips, which defined a non-volatile optical data computer data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. Video CD

5. Rainbow Books - Wikipedia

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   Beige Book (1992) PCD (Photo) White Book (1993) CD-i Bridge - a bridge format between CD-ROM XA and the Green Book CD-i, which is the base format for Video CDs, Super Video CDs and Photo CDs. VCD (Video) SVCD (Super Video, 1998) – a 1998 extension of VCD, standardized as IEC 62107 in 2000. Blue Book (1995) E-CD/CD+/CD Extra (Enhanced) Scarlet ...

6. Compressed audio optical disc - Wikipedia

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   A CD player capable of playing MP3 CDs. A compressed audio optical disc, MP3 CD, or MP3 CD-ROM or MP3 DVD is an optical disc (usually a CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R or DVD-RW) that contains digital audio in the MP3 file format. Discs are written in the "Yellow Book" standard data format (used for CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs ), as opposed to the Red Book ...

7. Blue Book (CD standard) - Wikipedia

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   The Blue Book is a compact disc standard developed in 1995 by Philips and Sony. It defines the Enhanced Music CD format ( E-CD, also known as CD-Extra, CD-Plus and CD+ ), which combines audio tracks and data tracks on the same disc. [1] The format was created as a way to solve the problem of mixed mode CDs, which were not properly supported by ...