Optical audio disc

An audio optical disc is an optical disc that stores sound information such as music or speech.

It may specifically refer to:

Audio CDs

Compact disc (CD), an optical disc used to store digital data (700 MB storage)
- Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA), a CD that contains PCM encoded digital audio in the original "Red Book" CD-DA format
- 5.1 Music Disc, an extension to the Red Book standard that uses DTS Coherent Acoustics 5.1 surround sound
- Compressed audio optical disc, an optical disc storing MP3s and other compressed audio files as data, rather than in the Red Book format

Audio DVDs

DVD, 4 GB single layer, 8 GB double layer storage
- DVD-Audio, a DVD that plays audio
- Super Audio CD (SACD), a format which competes with DVD-Audio

Audio Blu-rays

Blu-ray, 25 GB single layer, 50 GB double layer
- BD-Audio, a Blu-ray disc that is capable of audio-only playback

gollark: Unfortunately I've had to write some C due to reasons.

gollark: Well, C *is* known for segfaults.

gollark: `execvp` seems to take over the process or something, `fork` then that causes ææææ concurrency.

gollark: Highly advanced C question: how do I start a new process and wait for it to finish and do stuff if it fails?

gollark: Of course not, I meant elinks.

See also

CD-4 or Compatible discrete four-channel sound, a variety of quadrophonic audio for vinyl records

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.