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Specially formatted Compact Disc for replication

PMCD is a specially formatted, recordable Compact Disc designed to be sent to a CD pressing plant for replication. The PreMaster CD format, developed in the early 1990s by the CD-ROM division of Sony, in cooperation with "START Lab Inc." of Tokyo and Sonic Solutions, contained a hidden "PreMaster Cue Sheet" that held the metadata needed for replication that a Red Book CD-DA lacks. The PreMaster CD format made use of the fact that not all data-recording surfaces are specified for use in the Red Book CD-DA or Yellow Book CD-ROM standards. CD transports were not able to recover the data hidden in the Cue Sheet unless commanded to by proprietary software. The Cue Sheet specified a broad range of metadata, including number of channels, per track pre-emphasis status, per track copy protection bit setting, per track ISRC Codes, per disc UPC/EAN, etc.. Wikipedia →

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  1. Read the overview: PMCDA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Experimental and numerical investigation of Permanent Magnet Coupler Damper (PMCD) for adaptive energy dissipation in structural systemsInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Sustainability in project managementThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: The Principle of Minimum Chemical Distance (PMCD)Cited 70 times
  5. Go sideways: Cue sheet (computing)A closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: CD-ROMA closely related topic

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