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CD-ROM XA is an extension of the Yellow Book
Yellow Book (CD standard)

The Yellow Book is the standard that defines the format of CD-ROMs. The Yellow Book, created by Sony and Philips, was the first extension of the Red Book ....
 Mode 2
Optical disc recording modes

In optical disc authoring, there are multiple modes for recording, including Disc-At-Once, Track-At-Once, and Session-At-Once....
 standard for CD-ROM
CD-ROM

CD-ROM is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains Computer data storage accessible to, but not writable by, a computer. While the Compact Disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback, the 1985 Yellow Book standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of Binary file....
s that combines compressed audio, visual and computer data, allowing all to be accessed simultaneously. It was intended as a bridge between CD-ROM and CD-i
CD-i

CD-i, or Compact Disc Interactive, is the name of an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by Philips CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard used by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book , which was co-developed by Philips and Sony in 1986 ....
 (Green Book
Green Book (CD-interactive standard)

The Philips "Green Book" specifies the standard for interactive, multimedia compact discs designed for CD-i players. This compact disc format is unusual, because it hides the initial tracks which contains the software and data files used by the CD-i players....
), and was developed by Sony
Sony

is a multinational corporation list of conglomerates corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding US$99.1 billion ....
 and Philips
Philips

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , usually known as Philips, is a Netherlands electronics company. It is one of the largest electronics companies in the world, founded and headquartered in the Netherlands....
. "XA" stands for "eXtended Architecture".

Mode 2:2336-byte disk sector
Disk sector

In the context of computer disk storage, a sector is a subdivision of a Track on a magnetic disk or optical disc. Each sector stores a fixed amount of data....
s, usually used for CD-ROM/XA

CD-ROM/XA Mode 2 defines two forms:






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CD-ROM XA is an extension of the Yellow Book
Yellow Book (CD standard)

The Yellow Book is the standard that defines the format of CD-ROMs. The Yellow Book, created by Sony and Philips, was the first extension of the Red Book ....
 Mode 2
Optical disc recording modes

In optical disc authoring, there are multiple modes for recording, including Disc-At-Once, Track-At-Once, and Session-At-Once....
 standard for CD-ROM
CD-ROM

CD-ROM is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains Computer data storage accessible to, but not writable by, a computer. While the Compact Disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback, the 1985 Yellow Book standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of Binary file....
s that combines compressed audio, visual and computer data, allowing all to be accessed simultaneously. It was intended as a bridge between CD-ROM and CD-i
CD-i

CD-i, or Compact Disc Interactive, is the name of an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by Philips CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard used by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book , which was co-developed by Philips and Sony in 1986 ....
 (Green Book
Green Book (CD-interactive standard)

The Philips "Green Book" specifies the standard for interactive, multimedia compact discs designed for CD-i players. This compact disc format is unusual, because it hides the initial tracks which contains the software and data files used by the CD-i players....
), and was developed by Sony
Sony

is a multinational corporation list of conglomerates corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding US$99.1 billion ....
 and Philips
Philips

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , usually known as Philips, is a Netherlands electronics company. It is one of the largest electronics companies in the world, founded and headquartered in the Netherlands....
. "XA" stands for "eXtended Architecture".

Mode 2:2336-byte disk sector
Disk sector

In the context of computer disk storage, a sector is a subdivision of a Track on a magnetic disk or optical disc. Each sector stores a fixed amount of data....
s, usually used for CD-ROM/XA

CD-ROM/XA Mode 2 defines two forms:
  1. CD-ROM XAMode 2 Form 1: 2048 byte
    Byte

    A byte is a basic unit of measurement of Computer storage in computer science. In many computer architectures it is a Byte addressing memory address space....
    s of data, with error correction
    Error detection and correction

    In mathematics, computer science, telecommunication, and information theory, error detection and correction has great practical importance in maintaining data integrity across noisy channels and less-than-reliable storage media....
    , usually used for computer data
  2. CD-ROM XAMode 2 Form 2: 2324 bytes of data, no ECC, usually used for compressed audio, video or picture


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