Article: CD Plus is tremendous fun, providing your computer can run it.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

``We chase misprinted lies ... Yet I fight this battle all alone.''

I can identify with those lyrics from the song ``Nutshell'' by the Seattle heavy-metal band Alice In Chains.

I'm going to tell you about one of the most exciting developments yet for the owners of multimedia computer systems, but I'm also going to tell you how big computer and record companies are preparing to thumb their noses at millions of home computer users.

We're talking about ``CD Plus,'' a new technical standard allowing regular music compact disks to also include computer data. The tantalizing come-on: You can put a CD Plus disk into your stereo system and it will function ...

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