On Thursday, 15 August 2019 18:26:48 UTC+1, 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.

the idea that a computer would be cheap enough to incorporate into a player was not foreseen. Computers cost serious money in the 70s, and very few had access to one. The idea seemed wholly unrealistic back then - and it was.


NT