"Brad" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have been told that a data cd (also audio cd) is
first "read" from the middle track. Another person told me
that it is first "read" from the inside track. I always thought
it was first read from the outside (near the edge) track.

It is the inside. For this reason the performance of reading or writing gets
better as you nearer the end of the CD.