> Red Book CD audio ripping is an entirely different subject
> difficulty of directly streaming Red Book Audio
Actually, it's what I was alluding to this whole time. Sorry for not saying so out of the gate. Red Book audio was my life for a while. I recall writing cue sheets [0] for CDRWIN by hand! Ripping groups would brag that a given release was created with EAC at no more than 2.4x or something like that...
I believe data CDs (whichever color book that was) had more robust error correction (given that computer files can't just have glitches interpolated like audio can to some extent) which is why if you completely filled a CD with Red Book audio (74/80 minutes), ripped it to an uncompressed format like WAV/AIFF, and tried to put all of it on a data format CD as files, it wouldn't fit; it was a decent amount larger than 640/700MB and not just due to metadata.
> difficulty of directly streaming Red Book Audio
Actually, it's what I was alluding to this whole time. Sorry for not saying so out of the gate. Red Book audio was my life for a while. I recall writing cue sheets [0] for CDRWIN by hand! Ripping groups would brag that a given release was created with EAC at no more than 2.4x or something like that...
I believe data CDs (whichever color book that was) had more robust error correction (given that computer files can't just have glitches interpolated like audio can to some extent) which is why if you completely filled a CD with Red Book audio (74/80 minutes), ripped it to an uncompressed format like WAV/AIFF, and tried to put all of it on a data format CD as files, it wouldn't fit; it was a decent amount larger than 640/700MB and not just due to metadata.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sheet_(computing)