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Glossary

Rainbow Books—The collection of standards which define the different types of

CDs. Through these standards, it has been determined that CDs can be read and

processed by as many devices and operating systems of the different manufactur-

ers as possible.

Red Book—A book setting the standards for the Compact Disc physical format

and audio recording methods, published by Philips and Sony in 1981.

Session—An inter-related writing procedure is defined as a session. A session

consists of the Lead In area, the data area, and the Lead Out area. A CD can be

written with several sessions. This is then called a multi-session CD, in contrast to

a single-session CD that only contains one session. A silver CD generally consists of

one session.

TOC—Contents of the Lead-in, this contains the addresses of all the tracks on the

CD.

Track—In an Audio-CD, one track corresponds to one piece of music. With a

CD-ROM, one track contains computer data and it may have any number of files

and folders.

UDF—UDF is short for Universal Disc Format, another file layout standard for

CDROM. The UDF format can write to CD-Rs, CD-RWs, and DVDs by the Packet writ-

ing method, which eliminates "Buffer Under-Run" and is compatible with

ISO9660.The advantage of UDF is that it functions like writing from a hard disk.

Video CD—A CD-ROM storing MPEG-1-compressed moving pictures, still pic-

tures, audio sounds, etc.

Yellow Book—A book of CD-ROM standards published by Philips and Sony in

1985.

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