Where Audio-CD Preparation and Authoring fits
This guide describes an approved roadmap workflow and the preparation users can expect.
The intended path begins with a reviewed playlist or crate. MMW preserves the chosen order, checks source paths and durations, identifies format readiness, and prepares a conversion request for tracks that are not already in the required CD-DA shape. Decoding is planned for a separate staging workspace, not over the library masters.
After staged PCM is available, the authoring path can validate sector capacity, track boundaries, gap policy, CD-TEXT, ISRC where supported, and descriptor content. A later authorized backend can then create a master or perform a supervised burn, followed by verification and an authoring manifest.
Technical decisions for Audio-CD Preparation and Authoring
CD-DA uses 44.1 kHz, 16-bit, stereo PCM and 75 sectors per second. The current code can preview a sector-rounded layout against standard 74-minute and common 80-minute targets. It can also evaluate source-path and extension readiness for planned decoding and estimate a separate output workspace.
A playable audio-CD master is not the same thing as a generic data-disc ISO. Depending on the selected planned backend, appropriate exchange structures may include WAV plus CUE, BIN/CUE, or a TOC-oriented package. DDP remains a professional export compatibility validation, not a current implementation claim.
Audio-CD Preparation and Authoring boundaries and delivery
Conversion to PCM makes source audio technically suitable for CD-DA authoring; it does not restore detail lost in a lossy source. The site therefore uses the phrase decoded to CD-compatible PCM rather than suggesting a quality upgrade.
Any later write, image creation, backend launch, device access, or physical burn must remain behind explicit review and supervision. Current output safety models report these operations as disabled.
Audio-CD authoring is part of the Playlists and Crates delivery architecture because the ordered sequence is the authoring source. The same playlist review that finds missing paths, duplicate rows, duration problems, and incompatible formats provides the evidence needed for server, portable, optical-disc, DJ, karaoke, and archival destinations.
This shared model avoids a second hidden conversion system. The authoring workspace requests reviewed conversion work from MMW's conversion mechanisms, consumes staged outputs, and retains the original sequence and provenance through verification.