HP CD52 External CD-Writer Series - Manual (Page 105)

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A/D
Analogue/Digital. The conversion of analog signals to digital characters.
AIFF
An acronym for Apple Interchange File Format. This is the music file format for
tracks that are extracted from a disc and saved to the hard drive on a Macintosh
system.
ASPI
Acronym for Advanced SCSI Programming Interface. This is the interpreter
between the software, SCSI card, and your operating system. This allows the
device to communicate with the SCSI card.
ATAPI
Part of the EIDE (Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics) interface that provides
additional commands to control a CD-ROM drive, CD-ROM burner, hard drive,
etc…..
Audio CD
An audio CD is generally comprised of several tracks (titles). Discs in this format
only contain pure audio data. They can be played on commercially available audio
CD players and with the appropriate plug-in, also on a computer.
Note: Please note that when creating audio discs, there are some audio players on
the market which are not able to play re-writable discs. For this reason, you should
use CD-R discs.
Block
A block is the smallest addressable information unit on a CD-ROM. A block
corresponds to a sector.