Enhanced Music Compact Disc logo/trademark

Compact Disc Interactive logo/trademark

Enhanced CD, also known as CD Extra and CD Plus, is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both compact disc and CD-ROM players. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A certification mark on a commercial product indicates five things: The existence of a legal follow-up or product certification agreement between the manufacturer of a product and an organisation with national accreditation for both testing and certification, Legal evidence that the product was successfully tested in accordance with a... RIAA redirects here. ... CD redirects here. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...

The primary data formats for Enhanced CD disks are mixed mode (Yellow Book/Red Book), CD-i, hidden track, and multisession (Blue Book). A Mixed Mode CD is a Compact disc in which two different data types are combined. ... Categories: Rainbow Books | Computer storage | Stub ... Red Book is the standard for audio CDs (Compact Disc Digital Audio system, or CDDA). ... CD-i or Compact Disc Interactive is the name of an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by Royal Philips Electronics N.V. CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard utilized by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book, which was co-developed by... The Blue Book or Enhanced Music CD specification describes the Enhanced Music CD disc format. ...

The technology was popular in the late 90s with the increase of computer usage. Music CDs often included music videos, wallpapers, and other various content. However, recently bands wishing to include enhanced content often include a DVD instead, with the advantage of it playing in both computer's DVD-ROM drive and standard DVD player.

Problems

Sometimes computer CD ripping programs (particularly cdparanoia) have problems ripping some enhanced CDs, especially those which have the data after the audio section. These CDs have the data 11400 sectors (2m32s) after the audio, but some CD rippers may try to rip this blank section with the last track; the end result is that the ripper stalls during the last track, or simply errors out. cdparanoia is a compact disc ripper for Linux and BeOS. It was designed to be a minimalistic, high-quality CD ripper that would be able to compensate for and adjust to poor hardware to produce a flawless rip. ...

See also

• DualDisc
• Super Audio CD
• Mixed Mode CD

DualDisc is a type of double-sided optical disc product developed by a group of record companies including EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and 5. ... Super Audio CD (SACD) is a read-only optical audio disc format aimed at providing much higher fidelity digital audio reproduction than the Red Book audio CD. Introduced in 2000, it was developed by Sony and Philips Electronics, the same companies that created the Compact Disc. ... A Mixed Mode CD is a Compact disc in which two different data types are combined. ...

External links

• Standards and Coding (RIAA)
• Enhanced CD database
• Web or Internet Enhanced CD CDizz Player
• Web or Internet Connected Enhanced CD Bandlink CD
• Enhanced CD Fact Book (PDF file)
• How to Make Enhanced CDs (tutorial)