Sound recording, playback - card, application?

[Tim Wunder]

On 9/8/2003 9:53 AM, someone claiming to be Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 06:16:01 -0500
> "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 08:12:50 +0200
>>Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 18:03:12 -0700
>>>"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>well, originally yes, but usually all MP3s start off as WAVs and are
>>>>then converted to MP3s.
>>>
>>>And, what is the actual format of music on a CD?
>>
>>.wav
> 
> 
> Yep. So, hardly a Windows format. 
> 
> 

No, CD audio is *not* stored in WAV format, but rather CDDA (or just CDA).
http://www.sonicspot.com/guide/fileformatlist.html
http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html

The WAV file format was created by (or at least owned by) Microsoft and 
its main benefit is that CDA data can be stored without loss. That is 
not true of MP3 or OGG formats.

WAV is merely a defacto standard format for a lossless method of storing 
(and manipulating) audio data in files on PCs.

BTW, the first CD Audio disk was produced in the early 80's, 1982 - 
Billy Joel's 52nd Street, according to 
http://cassette.by.ru/history/compactdisc.htm, long before the time of 
Windows or any PC capable of storing 60 minutes of CD Audio.

Regards,
Tim