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

What does it matter? In the end they're just samples, laid out onto a disc
in an encoded fashion. The CD-ROM drive reads the track bits and decodes
them into samples which your computer writes to disk and encodes as a .WAV
file on the hard drive so the Operating System knows what to do with it.