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DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software
Track Adjacent bands of the data spiral on a Compact
Disc. A Compact Disc (of any format) may have up to
99 tracks.
Track-At-Once (TAO) The most common method of
recording a CD-R disc currently. Track-at-once simply
means that one track at a time is recorded on the disc.
Track-at-once is mostly used when recording Multi-
session CD-ROM discs, each new session will contain
at least 1 track. Track-at-once is mostly used for gen-
eral data storage, and is not the best way to master a
disc for replication. Disc-At-Once is the preferred way
to master a disc for replication. Track-at-once writes
the data (or audio) tracks first, then records the Lead-
In area with the TOC, and then jumps to the end of the
session to write the Lead-Out. See Disc-At-Once.
Track-At-Once can also be used to record a CD-RW
disc.
Track Relative Time A technique to determine the
start and stop times of sound segments on a Mixed
mode disc.
Transfer Rate The rate at which digital information is
transferred from a storage medium. For Compact
Discs, Real time (1X) transfer rate is 150 Kilobytes
(Kb) per second. 2X transfer rate is 300Kb per second,
4X transfer rate is 600Kb per second, and so on.
UDF (Universal Disc Format) A recently added log-
ical format that is closely associated with ISO9660,
but offers expanded flexibility for recording CD-R or
CD-RW discs using packet writing. Like ISO9660,
UDF is cross platform and discs created with UDF can
be interchanged with PC, Macintosh, and UNIX com-
puters. UDF can accommodate long file names, some-
thing ISO9660 was very inflexible with.
Universal Serial Bus (USB) Easy to connect serial in-
terface used on personal computers to attach lower