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Realizing I have to explain what "CD audio" is and how that's different from "files on a CD" for my new blog post, because a bunch of potential readers are too young to have encountered it the first time around

the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi
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Oh come the fuck on they still sell CDs I knew what fucking vinyl was in 1995

DecayWTF
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yeah but a lot of people didn't understand CDDA even at its height. The number of times I had to handhold someone through converting some MP3s to a CD CUE + WAV files because they tried just slopping them onto a disc and were perplexed as to why it didn't work in their CD player

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lmao at someone going "of course everyone knows that" when near fucking no one knew that even in the heyday of burning your own CDs to play in the car or whatever. Anyone who's ever tried it has absolutely burnt CDs their CD player couldn't read and had no idea what the issue was until they looked it up

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untold thousands of junk CDs out there because you'd assume you just burn stuff to the disk like windows lets you and then you can play it :V

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I mean they still sell CDs but not that many people have a CD player anymore. Neither my mom nor my brother have one anymore, so I ended up inheriting my dad's entire CD collection because there was no one else who could use them. I can easily see someone in their late teens or early 20s never having used a CD and not being familiar with what makes "tracks on a CD" different from "files" in a technical sense.

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Sorry -- I didn't mean to be too aggressive, it's just been in my nature to adopt a more sardonic and aggrieved voice online. Think like oscar the grouch (or possibly diogenes); you are actually allowed to hang out by my trash can.

That said, that's a fair point you're making -- even I do sometimes like to think about CD audio tracks as being low-key like files, even if the formatting is different enough that it's more of an abstraction when you open up an audio CD on a computer file browser.

I guess in that sense I'd compare it maybe to a compressed file -- like, there's definitely a clear structure to how its contents are laid out, but it took a while for it to be built into windows because the act of compression meant it used a very different standard for encoding that information than what an uncompressed windows file would.

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Ahh, yeah, I get what you mean. I’ve had enough rude comments/QRTs on Twitter over the years that I assume that kind of reply actually means what it says.

And yeah - this is a technical blog post, so the details of how it works is actually important. In this case the “non-file”ishness where you can index into arbitrary points of the disc is actually relevant so I’m probably bringing up vinyl as an example - actually seems more likely people have dropped a needle on a record more recently than looked at the time codes on a CD player.

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Argh, I'm sorry to hear that. Generally discourse on this site is charitable enough that I end up filtering my smart remarks less than I would most other places, but the rest of the internet being what it is doesn't change.

Ironically, in that context the best analog I can think of is a wave file, but without a format header because you know it's always going to be 44.1kHz and 16-bit, so you know what time it is at an arbitrary byte offset -- and that's basically how a cue sheet works, I realize as I was typing it out.

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