What further confuses matters of course are audio CD players that canĪlso play data CDs.
If you do the math (16 bits per sample times two stereo tracks timesĤ4,000 samples per second, then divide that by 8 bits per byte), you find thatĪn audio CD requires 176,000 bytes per second of audio and a 700- megabyte CDĬan hold approximately 69 minutes of audio 1. That single spiral of data can contain only oneįormat: uncompressed 16-bit stereo audio at a sampling rate ofĤ4 kilohertz. In the roughly 700 megabytes that can be stored on a CD. mp3įiles or files of other audio formats. While a data CD can contain music, it’s often in the form of compressed.
However, you need to do things a little differently.”Īn audio CD is more similar to an old vinyl record it’s best thought of asĪ single spiral of data – in the reverse of that vinyl – starts in theĬenter and slowly spirals outward.
“If your CD player can only play true audio CDs,
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