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class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/CD_icon_test.svg/128px-CD_icon_test.svg.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/CD_icon_test.svg/192px-CD_icon_test.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/CD_icon_test.svg/256px-CD_icon_test.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">General</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align: left"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Optical_disc" title="Optical disc">Optical disc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Optical_disc_drive" title="Optical disc drive">Optical disc drive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Optical_disc_authoring" title="Optical disc authoring">Optical disc authoring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Optical_disc_authoring#Software" title="Optical disc authoring">Authoring software</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Optical_disc_recording_technologies" title="Optical disc recording technologies">Recording technologies</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Optical_disc_recording_modes" title="Optical disc recording modes">Recording modes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Packet_writing" title="Packet writing">Packet writing</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burst_cutting_area" title="Burst cutting area">Burst cutting area</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Optical media types</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align: left"> <ul><li><b>Compact disc (<a href="/wiki/Compact_disc" title="Compact disc">CD</a>):</b> <a href="/wiki/Compact_Disc_Digital_Audio" title="Compact Disc Digital Audio">CD-DA</a>, <a href="/wiki/CD-ROM" title="CD-ROM">CD-ROM</a>, <a href="/wiki/CD-R" title="CD-R">CD-R</a>, <a href="/wiki/CD-RW" title="CD-RW">CD-RW</a>, <a href="/wiki/5.1_Music_Disc" class="mw-redirect" title="5.1 Music Disc">5.1 Music Disc</a>, Super Audio CD (<a href="/wiki/Super_Audio_CD" title="Super Audio CD">SACD</a>), <a href="/wiki/Photo_CD" title="Photo CD">Photo CD</a>, CD Video (<a href="/wiki/CD_Video" title="CD Video">CDV</a>), Video CD (<a href="/wiki/Video_CD" title="Video CD">VCD</a>), Super Video CD (<a href="/wiki/Super_Video_CD" title="Super Video CD">SVCD</a>), <a href="/wiki/CD%2BG" title="CD+G">CD+G</a>, <a class="mw-selflink selflink">CD-Text</a>, <a href="/wiki/CD-ROM_XA" class="mw-redirect" title="CD-ROM XA">CD-ROM XA</a>, <a href="/wiki/CD-i" title="CD-i">CD-i</a>, <a href="/wiki/MIL-CD" class="mw-redirect" title="MIL-CD">MIL-CD</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mini_CD" title="Mini CD">Mini CD</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/DVD" title="DVD">DVD</a>:</b> <a href="/wiki/DVD-R" class="mw-redirect" title="DVD-R">DVD-R</a>, <a href="/wiki/DVD%2BR" class="mw-redirect" title="DVD+R">DVD+R</a>, <a href="/wiki/DVD-R_DL" title="DVD-R DL">DVD-R DL</a>, <a href="/wiki/DVD%2BR_DL" title="DVD+R DL">DVD+R DL</a>, <a href="/wiki/DVD-R_DS" title="DVD-R DS">DVD-R DS</a>, <a href="/wiki/DVD%2BR_DS" title="DVD+R DS">DVD+R DS</a>, <a href="/wiki/DVD-RW" class="mw-redirect" title="DVD-RW">DVD-RW</a>, <a href="/wiki/DVD%2BRW" class="mw-redirect" title="DVD+RW">DVD+RW</a>, <a href="/wiki/DVD-RAM" title="DVD-RAM">DVD-RAM</a>, <a href="/wiki/DVD-D" title="DVD-D">DVD-D</a>, <a href="/wiki/DVD-Audio" title="DVD-Audio">DVD-A</a>, <a href="/wiki/DVD-Video" title="DVD-Video">DVD-Video</a>, <a href="/wiki/High-Definition_Versatile_Disc" title="High-Definition Versatile Disc">HVD</a>, <a href="/wiki/EcoDisc" title="EcoDisc">EcoDisc</a>, <a href="/wiki/MiniDVD" title="MiniDVD">MiniDVD</a></li> <li><b>Blu-ray Disc (<a href="/wiki/Blu-ray" title="Blu-ray">BD</a>):</b> <a href="/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable" title="Blu-ray Disc recordable">BD-R & BD-RE</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blu-ray_3D" class="mw-redirect" title="Blu-ray 3D">Blu-ray 3D</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blu-ray#Mini_Blu-ray_Disc" title="Blu-ray">Mini Blu-ray Disc</a>, 4K Blu-ray (<a href="/wiki/Ultra_HD_Blu-ray" title="Ultra HD Blu-ray">Ultra HD Blu-ray</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/M-DISC" title="M-DISC">M-DISC</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Universal_Media_Disc" title="Universal Media Disc">Universal Media Disc (UMD)</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Enhanced_Versatile_Disc" title="Enhanced Versatile Disc">Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD)</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Forward_Versatile_Disc" title="Forward Versatile Disc">Forward Versatile Disc (FVD)</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc" title="Holographic Versatile Disc">Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD)</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/China_Blue_High-definition_Disc" title="China Blue High-definition Disc">China Blue High-definition Disc (CBHD)</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/HD_DVD" title="HD DVD">HD DVD</a>:</b> <a href="/wiki/HD_DVD-R" class="mw-redirect" title="HD DVD-R">HD DVD-R</a>, <a href="/wiki/HD_DVD-RW" class="mw-redirect" title="HD DVD-RW">HD DVD-RW</a>, <a href="/wiki/HD_DVD-RAM" class="mw-redirect" title="HD DVD-RAM">HD DVD-RAM</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/High-Definition_Versatile_Multilayer_Disc" class="mw-redirect" title="High-Definition Versatile Multilayer Disc">High-Definition Versatile Multilayer Disc (HD VMD)</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/VCDHD" title="VCDHD">VCDHD</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/GD-ROM" title="GD-ROM">GD-ROM</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Personal_Video_Disc" class="mw-redirect" title="Personal Video Disc">Personal Video Disc (PVD)</a></b></li> <li><b>MiniDisc (<a href="/wiki/MiniDisc" title="MiniDisc">MD</a>):</b> <a href="/wiki/MD_Data" title="MD Data">MD Data, MD Data2</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Hi-MD" title="Hi-MD">Hi-MD</a></b></li> <li><b>LaserDisc (<a href="/wiki/LaserDisc" title="LaserDisc">LD</a>):</b> <a href="/wiki/LD-ROM" class="mw-redirect" title="LD-ROM">LD-ROM</a>, <a href="/wiki/LV-ROM" title="LV-ROM">LV-ROM</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Video_Single_Disc" title="Video Single Disc">Video Single Disc (VSD)</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive" title="Magneto-optical drive">Magneto-optical discs</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Ultra_Density_Optical" title="Ultra Density Optical">Ultra Density Optical (UDO)</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/3D_optical_data_storage" title="3D optical data storage">3D optical data storage</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Stacked_Volumetric_Optical_Disc" title="Stacked Volumetric Optical Disc">Stacked Volumetric Optical Disk (SVOD)</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Fluorescent_Multilayer_Disc" class="mw-redirect" title="Fluorescent Multilayer Disc">Fluorescent Multilayer Disc</a> </b></li> <li><b><a 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This information is usually stored in the subchannels in the lead-in area of the disc, where there is roughly 5 kilobytes of space available. It can also be stored on the main program area of the disc (where the audio tracks are), which can store about 31 megabytes.<sup id="cite_ref-faq_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-faq-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since the R to W channels are not used in the Red Book specification of audio CDs, they are not read by all CD players, which prevents some devices from reading CD-Text information.<sup id="cite_ref-faq_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-faq-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Format">Format</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=CD-Text&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Format"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>CD-text data is defined in a scattered manner between MMC-3 and Sony documentation. The below uses GNU libcdio's description.<sup id="cite_ref-cdio_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cdio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the lowest level, CD-text is stored in 18-byte "pack" units; this part is defined in MMC-3 Annex J. Each pack consists of 4 bytes of header (type indicator, track number reference, sequential counter, block number and character position indicator [BNCPI]), 12 bytes of payload, and 2 bytes of <a href="/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check" title="Cyclic redundancy check">CRC</a>. The type indicator ranges from 0x80 to 0x8F, the 13 defined values being:<sup id="cite_ref-3r10g_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3r10g-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>CD-Text keywords </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Type</th> <th>Keyword</th> <th>Description</th> <th>Section</th> <th>Format </th></tr> <tr> <td>0x84</td> <td>ARRANGER</td> <td>Name(s) of the arranger(s)</td> <td>Any</td> <td>Character </td></tr> <tr> <td>0x83</td> <td>COMPOSER</td> <td>Name(s) of the composer(s)</td> <td>Any</td> <td>Character </td></tr> <tr> <td>0x86</td> <td>DISK_ID</td> <td>Disc Identification information</td> <td>Disk</td> <td>Binary </td></tr> <tr> <td>0x87</td> <td>GENRE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre">Genre</a> Identification and Genre information</td> <td>Disk</td> <td>Binary </td></tr> <tr> <td>0x8e</td> <td>ISRC</td> <td><a href="/wiki/International_Standard_Recording_Code" title="International Standard Recording Code">International Standard Recording Code</a> of each track</td> <td>Track</td> <td>Character </td></tr> <tr> <td>0x85</td> <td>MESSAGE</td> <td>Message from the content provider and/or artist</td> <td>Any</td> <td>Character </td></tr> <tr> <td>0x81</td> <td>PERFORMER</td> <td>Name(s) of the performer(s)</td> <td>Any</td> <td>Character </td></tr> <tr> <td>0x82</td> <td>SONGWRITER</td> <td>Name(s) of the songwriter(s)</td> <td>Any</td> <td>Character </td></tr> <tr> <td>0x80</td> <td>TITLE</td> <td>Title of album name or track titles</td> <td>Any</td> <td>Character </td></tr> <tr> <td>0x88</td> <td>TOC_INFO</td> <td>Table-of-content information</td> <td>Disk</td> <td>Binary </td></tr> <tr> <td>0x89</td> <td>TOC_INFO2</td> <td>Second table-of-content information</td> <td>Disk</td> <td>Binary </td></tr> <tr> <td>0x8e</td> <td>UPC_EAN</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Universal_Product_Code" title="Universal Product Code">UPC</a>/<a href="/wiki/International_Article_Number" title="International Article Number">EAN</a> code of the album</td> <td>Disc</td> <td>Character </td></tr> <tr> <td>0x8f</td> <td>SIZE_INFO</td> <td>Size information of the block</td> <td>Any</td> <td>Binary </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The BNPCI is used to define information that does not fit in one pack. This can be text or binary data. The BNCPI also indicates whether the text is single-byte or <a href="/wiki/DBCS" class="mw-redirect" title="DBCS">double-byte</a> data in the top bit. This determines how <a href="/wiki/Null-terminated_string" title="Null-terminated string">null-terminated strings</a> are defined –  one or two bytes of 0x00.<sup id="cite_ref-cdio_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cdio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Note: the DBCS mode is rarely, if ever, used. Its special null handling is not necessary for computer DBCS code pages, as they are "hybrid" with ASCII and compatible in the NUL behavior. <a href="/wiki/UTF-16" title="UTF-16">UTF-16</a> could be the intended use.) </p><p>For block types listed above as "character" (per MMC-3), the payload is a simple null-terminated string. (MMC-3 is written confusingly here –  it describes the encoding as "ASCII" in the pack type table despite mentioning the BNCPI flag modifying its behavior later.) The descriptions of the binary fields are vague, but the developers of GNU libcdio has either matched them to sections of MMC-3 or written new descriptions based on Sony's sample.<sup id="cite_ref-cdio_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cdio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another layer of encoding specification is found at this payload level, in the SIZE_INFO block. Here the first byte may be used to indicate the encoding, <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latin-1" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin-1">Latin-1</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Code_page_932_(Microsoft_Windows)" title="Code page 932 (Microsoft Windows)">"MS-JIS"</a>. 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