• Red Book

• *CD-DA – Digital Audio extended by CD-Text,

• Yellow Book

• *CD-ROM – Read-Only Memory and

• *CD-ROM XA, - An extension to Yellow Book

• Orange Book

• *CD-MO – Magneto-Optical

• *CD-R alias CD-WO or CD-WORM – Recordable, Write Once or Write Once, Read Many

• *CD-RW alias CD-E – ReWritable or Erasable,

• *The orange book standard references the fact that "Yellow" and "Red" mix to orange; which means that CD-R and CD-RW is capable of music and data; although other colors (other CD standards) that do not mix are capable of being burned onto the physical medium. Orange book also introduced the standard for multisession writing.

• White Book

• *VCD – Video and

• *CD-Bridge - Hybrid discs, e.g. CD-Ready,

• * SVCD – Super Video,

• Blue Book

• *E-CD – Enhanced,

• *CD+ – plus and

• *CD+G – plus Graphics (karaoke) extended by CD+EG / CD+XG,

• Beige Book

• *PCD – Photo

• Green Book

• *CD-i – interactive,

• Purple Book

• *DDCD – Double Density,

• Scarlet Book

• *SACD – Super Audio.

• Black Book

See also

• Mini CD (6 or 8 cm diameter),

• CD-V (analog video),

• cDVD, AKA MiniDVD (8-cm cDVD or UDF-CD),

• SVCD (incorporating CVD and HQ-VCD),

• DVD, UMD,

• HD DVD, BD, EVD,

• CC-CD (UnCD),

• CD-MRW (packet writing),

• ML-CD, DDCD,

• XRCD, HDCD,

• HVD (holographic).