What is CD-i Ready?
CD-i Ready is a special kind of CD-i disc. Following the rules from the Green Book, a CD-i disc may contain CD-Audio tracks. These should be placed after the CD-i track which is always track 1. However, on some older CD-Audio players, this CD-i track would be played back resulting in possible damage to equipment or speakers. To prevent this, the CD-i Ready format was defined. On a CD-i Ready disc, the CD-i program data (including all of its audio and video information) is stored in the pause sectors preceeding track 1. Usually, pause sectors preceeding track 1 are skipped by most CD-Audio players, but they can be read fine on a CD-i player. This allowed for a greater compatibility of CD-Audio discs which contained extra information when played on a CD-i player. In essence, a CD-i Ready disc is not a true CD-i disc, since it does not follow the rules of the Green Book for placing CD-Audio data, but they can be read correctly by all CD-i players ever produced. CD-i Ready discs are usuall
