Comment by lxgr

I don't think I've ever had a CD and a player that supported it, unfortunately. A real shame, especially on car radios with 10 disk magazines in the trunk, where the CD case was unlikely to be around.

CDDA barely feels like a digital format: Sure, there's PCM audio on them, but error detection is dubious at best – it doesn't cover any sub-channels to my knowledge, and it's done by the same low-level layers as error correction, so I believe there's a chance for mistaking a garbled-but recoverable frame for a broke one.