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AANNSSII//CCTTAA SSttaannddaarrdd Digital Audiobook File Format and Player Requirements ANSI/CTA-2003-C R-2013 (Formerly ANSI/CEA-2003-C R-2013) February 2007 NOTICE Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™ Standards, Bulletins and other technical publications are designed to serve the public interest through eliminating misunderstandings between manufacturers and purchasers, facilitating interchangeability and improvement of products, and assisting the purchaser in selecting and obtaining with minimum delay the proper product for his particular need. 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CEA-2003-C is backward compatible with and supercedes CEA-2003, CEA-2003-A, and CEA-2003-B. i CEA-2003-C (This page intentionally left blank) ii CEA-2003-C CONTENTS 1 Scope.........................................................................................................................................................1 2 References................................................................................................................................................1 2.1 Normative References......................................................................................................................1 2.1.1 Normative Reference List ..........................................................................................................1 2.1.2 Normative Reference Acquisition .............................................................................................2 2.2 Informative References....................................................................................................................2 3 Overview ...................................................................................................................................................3 4 MultiAudio Audiobook Extensions ........................................................................................................4 4.1 Table of Contents .............................................................................................................................4 4.2 Description ........................................................................................................................................7 4.2.1 Tag.Identifier ...............................................................................................................................7 4.2.2 Tag.OrdinalNumber ....................................................................................................................7 4.2.3 Tag.Reserved ..............................................................................................................................7 4.2.4 Tag.Length...................................................................................................................................7 4.2.5 Data ..............................................................................................................................................7 5 Audiobook Extendable Structure (AB_ExtStruct) ................................................................................7 5.1 Tag......................................................................................................................................................8 5.2 Offset to Extra Data ..........................................................................................................................8 5.3 Fixed Length Chunk (AB_FixedChunk)..........................................................................................8 5.3.1 Example .......................................................................................................................................8 5.4 Variable Length Chunk (AB_VariableChunk) ................................................................................9 5.4.1 Example .......................................................................................................................................9 5.5 Extra Data ........................................................................................................................................10 6 Audiobook Header (AB_Header) ..........................................................................................................10 6.1 Tag....................................................................................................................................................10 6.2 AB_Header Fixed Chunk................................................................................................................10 6.2.1 Tag..............................................................................................................................................11 6.2.2 Audiobook Spec Major Version...............................................................................................11 6.2.3 Audiobook Spec Minor Version ..............................................................................................11 6.2.4 Number of Audiobooks (N_Bk) ...............................................................................................11 6.2.5 Offset to Playlist Indexes .........................................................................................................11 6.3 AB_Header Variable Chunk ...........................................................................................................11 6.3.1 Tag..............................................................................................................................................11 6.3.2 Playlist Indexes.........................................................................................................................12 6.4 AB_Header Extra Data ...................................................................................................................12 7 Audiobook Book (AB_Book).................................................................................................................12 7.1 Tag....................................................................................................................................................12 7.2 AB_Book Fixed Chunk...................................................................................................................12 7.2.1 Tag..............................................................................................................................................13 7.2.2 Text Format ...............................................................................................................................13 7.2.3 Flags...........................................................................................................................................13 7.2.4 TOC_Playlist Index ...................................................................................................................13 7.2.5 Offset to Book Title...................................................................................................................13