On 31/07/2015 11:22 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 27.07.2015 um 19:54 schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
>
>> This latter type of shenanigans is mostly used in cryptography and
>> number theory, but does also pop up in places like error-correcting
>> codes. (If you've ever tried to scan a bar code or play a CD, you care
>> about error-correcting codes.)
>
> Nobody cares about error-correcting codes when playing an audio CD.
> Unlike DVD or even data CDs (aka CD-ROMs), Sony's audio CD format
> doesn't waste any data capacity on bit error recovery.

In fact, the audio CD format uses cross-interleaved Reed-Solomon codes 
for error recovery.

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