Music CD -- Win vs. Linux
Ian Malone
ibm21 at cam.ac.uk
Wed Jun 29 10:15:15 UTC 2005
John Summerfied wrote:
<snip: on playing audio CDs via analog or digital>
> That's all well and good, but I've not seen the explanation I saw some
> years ago and which makes sense to me.
> Windows sees the individual tracks and presents them as files though
> they aren't really. Consequently, you can view a music CD in Windows
> as if it's a data cd.
But as I understand it you can't read the tracks as data: so
in Windows, as in Linux, an audio CD cannot be read/ripped by cat.
> AFAIK nothing on Linux does that, though there's no reason not to:
> cdparanoia does a fine job of ripping CDs, and as I recall one can
> choose an individual track.
Grip (which tends to use cdparanoia) can function as a player as
well as a ripper.
Of course there's a third method which I've never seen used;
CD drives often have a digital sound out (the two pin cable).
A sound card could use that, still bypassing the rest of the
system. But I've only ever seen the three/four pin ones used
(left, right, 2xgnd).
--
imalone
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