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As far as most CD players are concerned; not much.  Accurately, though, a “replicated” CD is one that’s been pressed by a plant – it’s a thin layer of aluminum embedded in plastic, manufactured to have a reasonably long lifespan.  A duplicated CD is essentially a CD-R, a burned copy of your master disc.  CD-Rs […]

Well.  Most CD authoring programs will get you close. iTunes, Winamp, Nero, etc will burn a CD that adheres to some of the standard, and will make CDs that play in most players – mostly because most CD players are pretty forgiving.  However, these CDs are not guaranteed to work everywhere, and if you’re trying […]

Redbook is the 1980-defined standard fro Audio CDs.  It defines CD audio as 44.1khz, 16-bit linear PCM-encoded audio, with a number of parallel tracks called P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W which encode various bits of data useful to the CD.  P and Q codes in particular handle things like “track start” […]