[linux-audio-user] CD-Text confusion

[Reuben Martin]

On 8/20/05, Mike Jewell <mj405 at oneupaudio.com> wrote:

> If it is possible to put this info directly on the CD, why wouldn't
> everyone do it?  In a production environment (or even onesy-twosy) is
> seems like it would be trivial once you figured it out and had the write
> hardware.  So what if most players couldn't read it.  If it cost nothing
> to add it, what's to be lost?
> 

Most don't do it because it's not part of the official Red Book spec.
CD-Text requires 96 bytes of sub-channel data per sector while the
official spec is for 16 bytes of sub-channel per sector. It's a matter
of keeping the CD backward compatible for old CD players.