Michael Kjörling (12024-01-08): > Note that while CD-DA disks are technically CD-ROM disks (compact disk > read only media), in typical usage "CD-ROM" is taken to mean a CD > which contains _data organized as files within a file system_, often > an ISO-9660 file system typically with extensions (Rockridge, Juliet, > ...).
It is worse than that: compared to data CDs, audio CDs lack one layer of error-correcting code and the synchronization necessary to tell the position of a particular sector. This is why tools like cdparanoia exist: between one read and the next they seek back a few sectors and check that the overlap matches. But on the other hand, an audio CD can contain up to 807 mega-octets of audio, compared to only 703 for a data CD. Regards, -- Nicolas George
