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Red Book Last modified: Thursday, August 30, 2001

The standard for audio CDs, developed by Phillips and Sony. The specification is formally known as Compact Disc-Digital Audio (CD-DA). It specifies up to 74 minutes of digital audio transferred at 150 Kbps. The first CD-ROM players also transmitted data at this rate, so they came to be called single-speed drives.