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Glossary
Audio CD
A CD that conforms to the Red Book
standard having *.cda tracks of 16bit
44.1kHz PCM music data. These can be
played on a CD player PC or DVD player.
Mp3 tracks sent to an audio CD will have
to be converted to cda before they are
burnt. Max. capacity 76mins
Burn
Term meaning to write a CD-R disc
Data CD
A CD that does not conform to the Red
Book standard and that can contain any
sort of digital data. In the context of
the Server the Data CD will most likely
consist of mp3 files and or .wav files of
various compression rates. Max capacity
700 – 800MB
MP3
This is a music file that uses compression.
This means that sonically redundant
data is removed from the file to make it
smaller. This cannot be recovered later
so the compression is said to be ‘lossy’.
Compression settings are expressed in
bits per second. The more bits per second
the nearer to the sound quality of a WAV
file the music will be.
Rip
Term used to describe the process of
reading and storing an audio CD
WAV
This is a music file that generally is
uncompressed. It is the type of file that
the Server produces from your CDs if a
compression setting is not selected
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