Enhanced CD

File Format
Name	Enhanced CD
Ontology	Physical File Formats Optical Discs CD Enhanced CD
Released	1995

Enhanced CD/CD-Extra/CD-Plus (Blue Book) and others are a Multi-Session CD Layout which comprises Audio Tracks CD-DA (Red Book) and a Data Session CD-ROM XA (Yellow Book).

There are three main types of Enhanced CD's, with Multi-Session being the most commonly used.

• Mixed Mode
• Pre-Gap
• Multi-session

Imaging Methods

• Imaging CD-Extra / Blue Book discs
• To Everything There Is a Session: A Time to Listen, a Time to Read Multi-session CDs

Samples

• Sony CD Extra Sampler

References

• The Enhanced CD Fact Book version 1
• The Enhanced CD Fact Book version 2