* " Absalom, Absalom " is the title of a song on the 1996 Compass CD Making Light of It by singer / songwriter Pierce Pettis, incorporating several elements of the biblical narrative.

Audio CD is an umbrella term that refers to many standards of means of playing back audio on a CD.

Although the CD claims to have 22 tracks, the last one, " www. bishopslips. com ," is a reference to the " Bishopslips " sketch.

The Compact Disc, or CD for short, is an optical disc used to store digital data.

A laser beam reads the CD and is reflected back to a sensor, which converts it into electronic data

A CD is made from thick, polycarbonate plastic and weighs 15 – 20 grams.

CD data is stored as a series of tiny indentations known as " pits ", encoded in a spiral track moulded into the top of the polycarbonate layer.

Today, nearly every single is released on a 120 mm CD, called a Maxi single.

A common variant is the " business card " CD, a single with portions removed at the top and bottom making the disk resemble a business card.

For example, raw uncompressed PCM audio ( 44. 1 kHz, 16 bit stereo, as represented on an audio CD or in a. wav or. aiff file ) has long been a standard across multiple platforms, but its transmission over networks is slow and expensive compared with more modern compressed formats, such as MP3.

CD-R retains a high level of compatibility with standard CD readers, unlike CD-RW which can be re-written, but is not capable of playing on many readers.

( Overburning itself is so named because it is outside the written standards, but, due to market demand, it has nonetheless become a de facto standard function in most CD writing drives and software for them.

The pregroove is molded into the top side of the polycarbonate disc, where the pits and lands would be molded if it were a pressed ( nonrecordable ) Red Book CD ; the bottom side, which faces the laser beam in the player or drive, is flat and smooth.

The pregroove is not destroyed when the data are written to the CD-R, a point which some copy protection schemes use to distinguish copies from an original CD.

The ANSI X. 12 EDI standard abbreviation for the carat is CD.

A CD or compact disc is a thin plastic silvery disc for audio recordings.

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Voice compression is used in Internet telephony for example, while audio compression is used for CD ripping and is decoded by audio players.

Another install method is via a net install CD, which is much smaller than a normal install CD / DVD.

Any DVD drive will read single layer discs as the drive software just regards the disc as a very large CD.

* Anthology, 4 CD containing numerous poems and texts read by the author, Anna la bonne, La Dame de Monte-Carlo and Mes sœurs, n ' aimez pas les marins by Marianne Oswald, Le Bel Indifférent by Edith Piaf, La Voix humaine by Berthe Bovy, Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel with Jean Le Poulain, Jacques Charon and Jean Cocteau, discourse on the reception at the Académie française, with extracts from Les Parents terribles, La Machine infernale, pieces from Parade on piano with two hands by Georges Auric and Francis Poulenc, Frémeaux & Associés FA 064, 1997

* Poems by Jean Cocteau read by the author, CD EMI 8551082, 1997

* William Cowper, 1791 ( blank verse ) An audio CD recording abridged by Perry Keenlyside and read by Anton Lesser is available ( ISBN 962 634 5312 ), 1995.

An audio CD recording read by Norman Deitz is available ( ISBN 1-4025-2325-4 ), 1989.

* Robert Fitzgerald, 1963, unrhymed poetry with varied-length lines ( ISBN 0-679-72813-9 ) An audio CD recording read by John Lee is available ( ISBN 1-4159-3605-6 ) 2006

An audio CD recording read by the translator is also available ( ISBN 1-930972-06-7 ).

An extract from In Parenthesis read by Jones himself in 1967 appears on the audiobook CD Artists Rifles.

An unabridged audio book version of Dolores Claiborne read by Frances Sternhagen is available, as downloadable mp3, CD and cassette format.

BBC Audiobooks released a CD of readings of Trevor Hoyle's novelizations of episodes The Way Back read by Gareth Thomas and Cygnus Alpha read by Paul Darrow.

If a CD is read and ripped perfectly to FLAC files, the CUE file allows later burning of an audio CD that is identical in audio data to the original CD, including track order, pregaps, and CD-Text.

A contributing factor may have been the inability of early CD players to reliably read discs with surface damage and offer anti-skipping features for applications where external vibration would be present, such as automotive and recreation environments.

When a CD is played, there is no physical contact involved, and the data is read optically using a laser beam.

The optical chip extracted from a CD player. The three dark rectangles are photosensitive, and read the data from the disk.

In an Adventure with Scientists, Harry Potter Film Wizardry, The Golden Compass: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion, Mary Poppins: Anything Can Happen if You Let It ( with Michael Lassell ) and a retelling of 50 Favourite Bible Stories selected and read on CD by Cliff Richard and illustrated by Stephen Waterhouse.

The ripping software tells the CD drive's firmware to read this data and parse out just the LPCM samples.

He read Charles Dickens ' A Tale Of Two Cities for the Chivers Audio Books production on cassette, later released on CD by Barnes and Noble Audio Classics.

CD players that display the " current track number " and " total disc time elapsed " in minutes thus read 66 61: 38 on the display as the final track starts.

Audio CD Series, the story was narrated by Marvin Miller ( read in both a normal-speed and a fast version ), along with Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hatches the Egg, The Sneetches and Other Stories, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, Bartholomew and the Oobleck, If I Ran the Zoo, and Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book.

Around 1994, the top wrap-around label sticker began to appear on most CDs, to make it easier to read what each CD was from the top without having to flip through them.

This makes the CD side easier for the laser to read — equivalent to a book using bigger print to make it easier to see, even if the person's glasses are of the wrong strength.

East Providence should organize its civil defense setup and begin by appointing a full-time director, Raymond H. Hawksley, the present city CD head, believes.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

* The CD art on Powerman 5000's album Transform, drawn by Spider One, contains symbols reminiscent of the amphisbaena.

Liner notes for a 2003 CD release by Hydra Records entitled Bill Haley and Friends Vol.

Compact Discs are increasingly being replaced or supplemented by other forms of digital distribution and storage, such as downloading and flash drives, with audio CD sales dropping nearly 50 % from their peak in 2000.

The first test CD was pressed in Langenhagen near Hannover, Germany, by the Polydor Pressing Operations plant.

The first CD to be manufactured at the new factory was The Visitors ( 1981 ) by ABBA.

The first major artist to have his entire catalogue converted to CD was David Bowie, whose 15 studio albums were made available by RCA Records in February 1985, along with four Greatest Hits albums.

For example, during the eight-year period ending in 2008, despite overall growth in music sales and one anomalous year of increase, major-label CD sales declined overall by 20 %.

This diameter has been adopted by subsequent formats, including Super Audio CD, DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray Disc.

The CD-R, originally named CD Write-Once ( WO ), specification was first published in 1988 by Philips and Sony in the ' Orange Book '.

The dye materials developed by Taiyo Yuden made it possible for CD-R discs to be compatible with Audio CD and CD-ROM discs.

The initial estimate was to have this revision completed by 1997 and an ISO CD ( Committee Draft ) was available by 1997.

Some limited-release versions included a second CD with songwriting commentary by Finn.

* " CD ", a song by T2

CD sleeves for H. luminous were silk-screened and printed by the band using 100 % post-consumer recycled cardboard.

Recent artistic projects concentrating on the Cathar element in Provençal and troubador art include commercial recording projects by Thomas Binkley, electric hurdy-gurdy artist Valentin Clastrier and his CD Heresie dedicated to the church at Cathars, La Nef, and Jordi Savall.

These CD / DVD images can be freely obtained by web download, BitTorrent, jigdo or from online retailers.

He created an audio CD with the title DRH / JJ, which includes all these compositions performed primarily by pianist Jane Jackson, but with a few performed by Brian Jones, Dafna Barenboim, Gitanjali Mathur and himself.

In addition to CSMA / CD, Token Ring ( supported by IBM ) and Token Bus ( selected and henceforward supported by General Motors ) were also considered as candidates for a LAN standard.