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From: howard@sfmag.UUCP (H.M.Moskovitz)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Favorite Pop/Rock CDs ?
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 12:22:20 EDT
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> However your confusion is just one more example of the need for clear
> and consistant labeling on all CDs.  I am hoping Sony/Philips or
> whomever licences manufacturers to use the CD format will require it,
> since it now seems unlikely that the record companies will do it
> voluntarily.  I believe all CDs should prominently display 4 important
> pieces of information:
> 1. Whether the original recording is digital or analog.
> 2. Whether the mixing was digital or analog.
> 3. Whether the master tape from which the CD master is produced is
>    digital or analog.

Currently, one company does EXACTLY that.
Mercury CD's have a code on each CD label that gives this info.
It is a three-letter code that tells, in order left-ro-right,
the original recording method, the mixing method, and the final
master method. The code uses 'A' and 'D' to denote analog or digital.
So, a code of 'AAD' means recorded and mixed analog, mastered digital,
which is what you will see on most rock and roll CD's.
I have 'Steeltown' by Big Country which is a Mercury recording. It
has a code of 'DAD' and sounds GREAT. I love their whining bagpipe-like
guitar sound.

> 4. The total playing time of the disk.

I don't know about yours, but my player tells me that info
as soon as I close the door with the CD in it (Including the
silence between tracks).

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