Disc Description Protocol (DDP) is a format for specifying the content of
optical disc
In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc (OD) is a flat, usually circular disc that encodes binary data (bits) in the form of pits and lands on a special material, often aluminum, on one of its flat surfaces. ...
s, including
CDs
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in Octo ...
and
DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kin ...
s.
DDP is commonly used for delivery of
disc premaster
Disk or disc may refer to:
* Disk (mathematics), a geometric shape
* Disk storage
Music
* Disc (band), an American experimental music band
* ''Disk'' (album), a 1995 EP by Moby
Other uses
* Disk (functional analysis), a subset of a vector sp ...
s for duplication. DDP is a
proprietary format
A proprietary file format is a file format of a company, organization, or individual that contains data that is ordered and stored according to a particular encoding-scheme, designed by the company or organization to be secret, such that the decodi ...
and is the property of
DCA.
The file format specification is not freely available.
The DDP must contain 4 parts:
[Francis Rumsey, Desktop Audio Technology, 2004, Focal Press]
# Audio image(s) (.DAT file(s))
# DDP Identifier (DDPID)
# DDP Stream descriptor (DDPMS)
# Subcode descriptor (PQDESCR)
An optional text file, containing the track titles and timings, can also be included.
Software
Windows PC:
*Adobe Encore
*Cockos Reaper
*DCA Viper
*Eclipse Image Encoder
*Gear Pro Mastering
*HOFA CD Burn & DDP
*Magix Sequoia
*Merging Pyramix
*PreSonus Studio One Professional
*SADiE
*Sonoris DDP Creator
*Steinberg WaveLab
macOS:
*Triumph Mastering Suite
*Adobe Encore×
*Audiofile Engineering Triumph (previously Wave Editor)
*Audiofile Triumph
*Cockos Reaper
*DSP-Quattro
*HOFA CD Burn & DDP
*PreSonus Studio One Professional
*Sonic Studio soundBlade and PMCD
*Sonoris DDP Creator for Mac
*Steinberg WaveLab
References
Optical disc authoring
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