Posted by Scott Dorsey on 04/30/07 14:07

In article <133a7mdc7s9c45d@corp.supernews.com>,
Richard Crowley <rcrowley@xp7rt.net> wrote:
>"Telstar" wrote ...
>> "Richard Crowley" wrote ...
>>> Indeed. In fact, the "cd native format" is effectively WAV.
>>> The audio data is exactly the same. The only difference
>>> is that the CD "files" don't have headers (since they don't
>>> need them, as the format: 16 bits x 44.1K samples is
>>> pre-defined.)
>>
>> .WAV files are quite different: There are no error correction
>> elements.
>
>You appear to be confusing the medium with the message.
>WAV files (and, indeed ANY computer files) have even more
>error detection/correction than the information on a RedBook
>audio CD.

Well, it's not the .wav file itself that has all that error correction,
it's the Orange Book CD-ROM format, or the DVD format, which has all the
error correction going on.

>You can demonstrate this for youself by trying to write the
>equivalent WAV file as an Orange-Book data CD. Note that
>exactly the same data takes more space on an Orange Book
>data disc.

Yes, but the error correction isn't at the .wav layer, it's at the
orange book layer. Admittedly the end results are the same.
--scott
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