In article ,
NY wrote:

It's always amazed me that when the CD standard was devised in the late
70s, they didn't reserve a few bytes in the disc's track index for the
disc name and artist, and the name of each track. A couple of kB of
that data wouldn't have reduced the amount of music data that could be
stored by more than a second.

There is plenty room on a CD for that text. IIRC, the original 74 minute
red book maximum was set by the maximum running time of a US NTSC U-Matic
tape - used then for digital recording.

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