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- From: chbl@sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de (Christian Blum)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.audio,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Life after CDs
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.112024.14197@coli.uni-sb.de>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 11:20:24 GMT
- References: <27JUL199209444686@erin.caltech.edu>
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- shoppa@erin.caltech.edu (TIM SHOPPA) writes:
- > I am far from an expert on CD formats and technology, but it seems to
- > me that the CD manufacturer could lengthen the format the same way that an
- > LP manufacturer did - by allowing less space between the spirals (a.k.a.
- > "grooves"). CD's are not recorded in tracks and sectors as are floppies, but
- > in a spiral. This allows the head-positioning algorithm to smoothly track
- > along as music plays, instead of having to jump from track to track and
- > simultaneously trying to ensure that enough music was stored in the buffer to
- > continuously play as the head settles on the new track. There is probably a
-
- Have you ever put your ear on your player while it was playing a CD?
- It definetely steps!
-
- > Also, I believe the same article pointed out that music *could* be
- > recorded on both sides! Has anyone actually seen this done? It would mean
- > that program information (and the trendy art designs) we are used to would
- > be non-existent or in the very center circle of the CD.
-
- Course. You simply have to put two CDs together. Try it in your player, it
- works.
-
- Chris.
-