As a reply to the last several messages in this thread: The advice to store the wave audio data as data files rather than in a directly playable audio disc format is well taken. The Orange Book standard for CD-ROM and all standards for DVD-ROM formats (DVD-R, DVD+R, etc.) include checksumming for the data of each sector. The Red Book standard for audio CDs does not. Basically if you can transfer a data file from a DVD-R, DVD+R or CD-ROM without encountering read error messages from your operating system, you should have the original data.
In addition, just focusing for a moment on CDs (audio versus CD-ROM), while the CD-ROM data format is based on the physical format of the audio CD (due to the fact that the medium was invented for audio use, and its use for data came only later when the audio medium had established itself), audio CDs were not designed to be "randomly accessed" nor necessarily to give bit-accurate reading. The logical data sectors on an audio CD aren't numbered; a player can only infer where it is reading from. This is why software such as EAC is necessary for high-speed digital audio extraction if you don't have a Plextor or other drive with firmware that has the equivalent logic built in. If the player's output data buffer fills up, the disc keeps spinning but the reading stops until there is room in the buffer. Then reading has to resume, but exactly where?
All disc media have this same problem, but the other ones (such as your hard drive) cope with it by numbering their logical sectors so that they can seek to a particular sector and "know" where they are. With audio CDs, the position can only be estimated and contents compared, etc., to establish exact head location. With CD-ROMs the logical sectors contain additional data which include sector numbers, so that precise seeking is possible and data are not repeated or skipped during an interrupted transfer (the normal kind at high speeds).
CD-ROM was designed as a distribution medium for software as well as a carrier for enterprise business data; undetected, uncorrected bit errors are of course unacceptable in those applications. In the playback of audio CDs a set of techniques known as "error concealment" based on psychoacoustic assumptions is used; these techniques cannot be used on CD-ROM. Thus an additional layer of error detection and error correction data is included in the Orange Book format, such that the bit error rate is reduced by a factor of 1,024 over audio CD, and the error detection is powerful enough that it is mathematically very unlikely to be fooled even once during the estimated service lifetime of a player.
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