Pat wrote:
I'm familiar with DVD Video. In that case, we're talking files. Pure
files where they either read in error free, or they fail.

In the case of CD-DA tracks, that's not the case. Correct?

Kinda-sorta. The CDDA track has a file system of sorts. There is a table of
contents. However, there is not a file system in these that is anything like
the file system on a CDROM.

If not files, then what are the tracks, physically, that you read into
your
computer and write to the hard drive as WAV files?

One of the best detailed discussions I've found:

http://www.ee.washington.edu/consele...udio2/95x7.htm