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Compact Disc Digital Audio

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Red Book is one of a set of colour-bound books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.

Red Book specifies standards for audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio System). The physical parameters and properties of the CD are specified as well as the form of digital audio encoding (16-bit Pulse Code Modulated), the optical 'stylus' 'parameters, deviations and error rate, modulation system and error correction, and subcode channels and graphics.

The first edition of the Red Book was released in June 1980 by Phillips and Sony, it was adopted by the Digital Audio Disc Committee and ratified as IEC 908.

The other books in the set are Yellow Book (CD-ROM and CD-ROM XA), White Book (Video CD), Blue Book (Enhanced Music CD), Orange Book (CD-R and CD-RW), Photo CD Book (Kodak and Philips), Multisession CD book (Philips and Sony).

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