Enhanced CD
Enhanced CD, also known as CD Extra and CD Plus, is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both Compact Disc and CD-ROM players.
The primary data formats for enhanced CDs are mixed mode (Yellow Book/Red Book), CD-i, hidden track, and multisession (Blue Book).
The technology was popular in the late 1990s with the increase of computer usage. Music CDs often included music videos, wallpapers, and other various content. However, more recently, acts wishing to include enhanced content often include a DVD instead, with the advantage of it playing in both a computer's DVD-ROM drive and in a standard DVD player. Iron Maiden was one of the first bands to use Enhanced CDs in 1998 when the group released remastered albums of its back catalog.
[edit] Problems
Sometimes computer CD-ripping programs (particularly cdparanoia) have problems ripping some enhanced CDs, especially those that have the data in a separate section after the audio section. These CDs have the data 11,400 sectors (2m32s) after the audio, but some CD rippers may try to rip this blank section with the last track; the end result is that the ripper stalls during the last track or simply reports errors.
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