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An audio CD is an audio CD where ever you buy it, and will play anywhere
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well not quite - some won't play on your PC or some other CD players
"The skirmish began in early January when officials for Netherlands-based Philips, which licenses the compact disc logo for both discs and players, went on a tirade against the recording industry for shipping discs with deliberate errors burned into them.
The errors not only make it harder to burn copies of the music, but also render the discs unplayable on many computers -- and a few stereos -- by violating the "Red Book" standard for CD-Audio established by Philips and Sony in 1980.
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Those are silver discs with music data that resemble CDs, but aren't" Philips representative Klaus Petri told Financial Times Deutschland.
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