On 8/20/05, Mike Jewell <mj405@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> If it is possible to put this info directly on the CD, why wouldn't
> everyone do it? In a production environment (or even onesy-twosy) is
> seems like it would be trivial once you figured it out and had the write
> hardware. So what if most players couldn't read it. If it cost nothing
> to add it, what's to be lost?
>
Most don't do it because it's not part of the official Red Book spec.
CD-Text requires 96 bytes of sub-channel data per sector while the
official spec is for 16 bytes of sub-channel per sector. It's a matter
of keeping the CD backward compatible for old CD players.
Received on Sun Aug 21 08:15:04 2005
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