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...Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:10:09AM +0200, Harry Sack wrote: > does anybody know why dvd use files for audio and video but audio cd's not? > What could be the reason for this? Otherwise, yes, as Dan said, The technology is almost 30 years old, and it's designed much more like a digital phonograph than a computer storage disk. CD-DA isn't even block addressable in the normal sense. The data is written in a continuous spiral from start to finish, with local signposts to help seeking. At the time, I expect there was no expectation of using it for data storage, and no need for the overh...

..., a prosecution spokesman, told Belgian news media. He said the searches were part of an investigation of the Internet site Mp3blast.com, but added that four cases against Napster users are under review. Marcel Heymans, general director of the Belgium branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, said he warned police of alleged copyright infractions. Heymans said his organization had tracking equipment that could search for violators "by the thousands." At the moment, he said the group was only targeting people "who had been clearly warned yet persevered with th...

Hi FLACers I'm studying music production and am currently doing an analysis of the FLAC format. If anyone has the knowledge and a minute to explain i would greatly appreciate any help. One thing that i cannot make sense from in the FLAC documentation (a thing that is hard to find info on in general) is how the decorrelation fase works exactly. I understand that the two channels in a stereo

...ey insist it's still relevant. They also say that the industry may find a way to build on the technical foundation laid by SDMI. "The mission of SDMI is, was and remains to create an environment for secure trading in music," said Paul Jessop of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a trade group for record companies worldwide. "It's not something that's changing. . . . What we haven't achieved at this time is consensus around any set of technologies." SDMI was launched in early 1999. At the time, consumers were just starting to convert C...

does anybody know why dvd use files for audio and video but audio cd's not? What could be the reason for this? e.g. they could make a file for each track and just put them on an audio cd and make cd players compatible with this format. So for me it has always been a mystery why audio cd's work this way. does anybody knows if super audio cd's still work the same as normal ones?