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Music CD's do indeed use the same formats as Data CD's.

Music CD's are single sided whereas Data CD's can be double sided.

Music CD's are single sided to allow for labelling on one side.  I would
have liked for them to be double sided.  There is ample room for some 
labelling in the dead area's of the disk -- that is, I assume I'm interpreting
what I see properly.  On a Music CD there's a band of "smooth-continuous"
looking "silver" around the outside, inside that there's a band of not
so "smooth-continuous" looking "silver", inside that there's another band
of "smoth" stuff.  I assume that the data is in the not-so-smooth parts
and the smooth parts don't hold any data and can be used for labelling.

2 1/2 hrs of music on a disk would be nice.  But then that assumes that
the record companies can think of ways to distribute that much music in
one package.  From past experience I don't think they could.  They haven't
been able to get beyond thinking in terms of the "Album" format.

I was looking through BYTE last night and saw someone advertising CD ROM
readers and WORM drives.  The ROM readers had attachments available which
would allow one to play Music CD's in the ROM reader.

I had a thought.  Do WORM drives use the same data formats?  If not, can they?
I had this silly thought about making backup copies of my Music CD's :-).

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