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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > the humble compact disc
 
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fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
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echinopsis posted:

invent by philip in 1973 to springboard michael jackson to stardom the compact disc (or “CD”) is a round disc 100mm in diameter which has shiny pits that represent ones and zeros

these ones and zeros encode data and that data encodes music. block rockin beats. this was called black book

later they realised you could encode other data onto these discs and they call that yellow book

then at some stage they made it so CDs could be made of plastic and you could zap them with a laser and make your own. this was good for stealing music and games



all in all CDs are round. then they made DVD. then HD-DVD. then the playstation 3 I think.

never heard of it

yours truly,
fart simpson
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fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
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The Management posted:

op your thread is infested with vinyl fetishists. I have no choice but to recommend gassing to keep them from spreading.

i was asked to start writing the specs for a new jbl branded turntable recently, op. and then later asked to put the project on hold again

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fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

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 my first ipod died 2 weeks after apple care expired

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fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

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 i would have divorced u after that too!!

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fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

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The Management posted:

CDs have a table of contents at the start that lists the tracks, kind of like a partition table. however, there are no discrete blocks on audio CDs. instead they use time codes. there is a very low bitrate signal encoded in the data stream that contains the current time (if the disc were one long track including the track number). the table of contents lists the time codes of each track start. your cd player seeks to approximately where that would be on the disc, starts reading, and adjusts itself until it finds the time code it wants.

a cd player doesn’t need to keep track of what the current track is or the time, it can display the track and time codes directly from the disc with no processing. sometimes you’ll see a cd player show -1 seconds before a track starts. that’s literally in the time codes on the disc.

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fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

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George posted:

i use cds because im tired of todays hyper-digital fast paced life and try to use old analog formats whenever possible

agreed

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fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
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echinopsis posted:

cd is the analog of digital

correct

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fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

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 that photon voted for joe biden

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