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MULTIAUDIO ASSURES FASTER ACCESS TO
COMPRESSED AUDIO FILES ON CD OSTA's MultiAudio specification organizes the hundreds of songs that can be stored on a single CD, achieving faster disc initialization and playback. The intent of the new specification is to ensure that discs with compressed files-such as MP3 or WMA-are as easy to play as standard Red Book audio CDs. The specification creates a Table of Contents used for retrieval, management and playback of compressed audio files and playlists by a CD or DVD consumer player. MultiAudio enables the playback device to quickly read the table of contents, bypassing the lengthy delays for disc initialization that can occur today while the player identifies all of the files on the disc. In addition, it allows playlists to be created so songs can be accessed by genre, album, artist or custom groupings created by the user. The MultiAudio logical disc format is an extension of current MP3 capability on CE devices, and provides backward compatibility with current MP3 disc players capable of playing compressed audio files stored on optical disc. To facilitate creation and display of playlists, the specification provides a standardized method of storing information regarding the track name, year recorded, performer name, composer name, songwriter name, arranger name, album name, and genre.
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