Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Compact Disc Digital Audio" in English language version.
The Nyquist rate is twice the bandwidth of the signal ... The Nyquist frequency or folding frequency is half the sampling rate and corresponds to the highest frequency which a sampled data system can reproduce without error.
The first test CD was Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie, and the first CD actually pressed at a factory was ABBA's The Visitors, but that disc wasn't released commercially until later.
This Rykodisc release was the first compact disc to contain 80 minutes of music; 78 minutes had previously been the longest length possible to encode on a CD.
An international collaboration between Philips and the Sony Corporation lead to the creation of the compact disc. The author explains how it came about
An added feature of audio CD's is that in the event of damage, the missing data can be interpolated; that is to say, the information follows a predictable pattern that allows the missing value to be guessed at. So if an audio CD is damaged by dirt or a scratch, the missing data can be averaged from a pattern with no noticeable difference to the listener. This is something the next technology in optical digital memory, CD-ROM, cannot do because an executable program's data doesn't follow a natural law. An interpolation-based guess isn't just slightly different; it's completely wrong. Because of this precision, CD-ROM drives for PC's came later and much more expensive than audio.
The first test CD was Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie, and the first CD actually pressed at a factory was ABBA's The Visitors, but that disc wasn't released commercially until later.
The Nyquist rate is twice the bandwidth of the signal ... The Nyquist frequency or folding frequency is half the sampling rate and corresponds to the highest frequency which a sampled data system can reproduce without error.
This Rykodisc release was the first compact disc to contain 80 minutes of music; 78 minutes had previously been the longest length possible to encode on a CD.
An added feature of audio CD's is that in the event of damage, the missing data can be interpolated; that is to say, the information follows a predictable pattern that allows the missing value to be guessed at. So if an audio CD is damaged by dirt or a scratch, the missing data can be averaged from a pattern with no noticeable difference to the listener. This is something the next technology in optical digital memory, CD-ROM, cannot do because an executable program's data doesn't follow a natural law. An interpolation-based guess isn't just slightly different; it's completely wrong. Because of this precision, CD-ROM drives for PC's came later and much more expensive than audio.
