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 FormatsWith 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-writi...
