On 7 Feb 2004 05:34:33 GMT, Andrew Black (detele obvious bit) wrote:
Hi
I wonder if someone can give me (or point to) a simple explanation as to
the difference between data CD and audio CD formats.

An audio CD is a linear array of samples @ 44.1khz, 2 channels, 2 bytes
per sample. There's a table of contents at the start and a disk ID. That's
about it.

A data CD has a file system and extra error correction wrapped around the
data blocks.