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different software applications, for the most part authoring and retrieval software can be viewed as a pair. They represent the mechanism for preparing information to write to CD-ROMs and for retrieving information from CD-ROMs. Advanced data management schemes and database search engines have been developed and marketed as Authoring/Retrieval software. Authoring software may be referred to as putting the pieces of a product together into one cohesive, integrated application (to include creating and loading the index database, creating reports and the user interface, and testing the system), but this is generally only one piece of the functionality. The actual process of accessing the information
efficiently during retrieval, interactivity, or playback, is the other piece of authoring software functionality. All authoring software can handle ISO 9660, but may be platform (MS-DOS, Macintosh, Unix, OS/2, etc.) specific.
d. Blue Book - Specifications for Enhanced CD, aka CD Plus, aka CD Extra. The Blue Book format places audio tracks in the first CD session, followed by data in the second session. Enhanced CDs can be played by an ordinary CD-A or CD-ROM player and can include full lyric and linear notes, photos, music videos and more.
e. Compact Disc-Audio (CD-A) or Compact Disc-Digital Audio (CD-DA) - A Compact Disc for storing audio. The physical standards for CD-A were defined by Sony and Philips in 1980 and published in a red binder called the Red Book standards for audio. CD-quality audio is played at 44,100 samples per second, 16 bits and stereo. To play CD-quality audio on a computer, the minimum transfer rate must be 176 KBps.
f. Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) - A Compact Disc format containing data, still and full motion video, audio, and animated graphics. CD-i discs require unique CD-i players and are incompatible with a CD-ROM drive. The specifications for CD-i are defined in the Green Book.
g. CD-i Bridge Disc - CD-ROM XA discs which have been recorded to conform with the CD-i operating system and will therefore play on CD-i drives.
h. Compact Disc-Read Only Memory/Extended Architecture (CD-ROM/XA) - XA defines a new form of the Yellow Book CD-ROM format, Mode-2 data tracks, which utilizes some filler space in the sector header to allow specifications of data types by sector. The XA format allows producers to interleave audio, video, text, and other computer data within the same physical track on a CD-ROM. Until recently, special hardware was required to read CD-ROM/XAs but there are now software solutions available. Yellow Book XA specifications may be obtained from ANSI - see ANSI definition.
i. Compact Disc-Recordable (CD-R) - A CD format allowing local recording to the disc. The specifications for CD-R are defined in the Orange Book. Part 1 of the Orange Book standard pertains to Compact Disc-Magneto Optical (CD-MO), which divides a disc into two parts - the inner tracks are used as compact discs (i.e., pre-embossed read-only) and the outer tracks may be written to, erased and rewritten. Part 2 of the Orange Book standard pertains to Compact Disc-Write Once (CD-WO), or CD-R. The CD-WO specifications cover single- and multi- session writing to a compact disc. As the name implies, CD-WO discs may be written to, but not erased.
j. Compact Disc-Recordable 2 (CD-R2) - CD-Recordable media compatible with both CD and
DVD players. DVD players containing two laser read heads will not require special CD-R2 media.
k. Compact Disc-Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) - An optical storage, read-only, compact disc format used to hold various types of information, such as computer data, audio, video, or animation.
CD-ROMs can hold in excess of 600 MB representing over 200,000 pages of ASCII text, 20,000 medium
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