* " 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.

A CD is read by focusing a 780 nm wavelength ( near infrared ) semiconductor laser through the bottom 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.

In early 2006 Wal-Mart issued The Lost Sessions as a single CD apart from the boxed set, with extra tracks including a top 25 duet with Yearwood, " Love Will Always Win ".

This version is included in the book and CD set The Best British Stand-Up and Comedy Routines, along with a transcript of the sketch and the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

He also contributed the complete text for the 240-page hardcover book featured in the 2010 30-disc CD boxed set, " The Complete Elvis Presley Masters ".

In 1990, Colin Escott wrote an introduction to Orbison's biography published in a CD box set: " Orbison was the master of compression.

* Alexander Goldscheider set the entire text to music and recorded it with Jaroslava Maxová, Jaroslav Březina and Romantic Robot Orchestra on a CD released by Romantic Robot, London.

Released as part of the box set, Simon & Garfunkel Collected Works, on both LP and CD — Columbia Records LP CL-9049 ( mono ), CS-9049 ( stereo ), CD CK 9049.

* Track ( CD ), consecutive set of sectors on the disc containing a block of data

* Track ( CD ), consecutive set of sectors on the disc containing a block of data

In November 2005, Venue Songs was released as a two-disc CD / DVD set narrated by John Hodgman.

In June 2007, the two albums were reissued as The Traveling Wilburys Collection, a box set including both albums on CD ( with bonus tracks ) and a DVD featuring a twenty-four minute band documentary and a collection of music videos.

The final show of the tour was filmed and released as part of a DVD / CD set titled Welcome to Sunny Florida ( the set also included a studio EP titled Scarlet's Hidden Treasures, an extension of the Scarlet's Walk album ).

Along with the CD, the release includes an 8½ " × 11 " replica of the original poster for the show, a reproduction of the handwritten set list and a four-page fanzine with photos and liner notes by Jonathan Gold.

Vangelis released 2 albums in 2007 ; the first was a 3 CD set for the 25th Anniversary of Blade Runner, titled Blade Runner Trilogy and second was the soundtrack for the Greek movie, El Greco, titled El Greco Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

They released no new material during this time, although Virgin did issue two compilations-the US-only greatest hits collection Upsy Daisy Assortment, and the 2-CD set ' Best Of ' collection Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977-1992, which featured remastered versions of their singles, including many tracks not previously issued on CD.

Many of the original mixes were used on the 2003 CD box set Chrome, Smoke & BBQ, and its companion piece Rancho Texicano.

* Enchanted ( 3 CD box set ) ( 1998 )

* Complete Beyond the Fringe set, EMI Audio CD, 21 October 1996, ASIN: B000006SW2

The 40th anniversary special Horne A ' Plenty was released as a 3 CD set by BBC Audiobooks as The Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne.

* Previously unreleased live recordings from the 1969 Bill Haley's Scrapbook sessions at the Bitter End ( CD release of Bill Haley's Scrapbook ( Kama Sutra / Buddah, 1993 ) and The Warner Brothers Years and More box set ( Bear Family, 1999 );

In 1996, it was reissued with the Hanna-Barbera's Pic-A-Nic Basket of Cartoon Classics CD set, which also contained three other CDs of H-B TV theme songs and background music and songs from The Flintstones.

The double disc set contains one CD of previous hits, and another of extended versions and mixes of material that had largely only previously been available on vinyl record B-sides.

* Rekapitulacija 1980-1984 (( double CD box set with booklet and poster ) Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien, 1987, Hamburg )

The version released on CD contains an even longer set of alternate endings, including one set after the events of the twelfth radio episode ( with Arthur Dent and Lintilla ), and on an alternate Earth where Arthur Dent and Fenchurch engage in a stand-off against Mr Prosser, together.