Audio CDs not mounting

[Joel Rees]

Oh, for ...

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 16:17 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
>> It should be possible to write a FUSE wrapper that would let you do
>> the desktop-interface trick as a proper mount. Not that I'm
>> volunteering.

It has been done in the past. In more than one of the OSses I have
used, the ISO9660 drivers included the translations. I'm pretty sure
that included Fedora back around F4 or 5 and before. I'd been
wondering how the MARFIAA had gotten us to remove that functionality,
and I guess I'm seeing some clues in this thread.

> Though, I wonder what you'd do with it then?  dd or cat track to the
> sound device?  mplayer /media/music/track2?  (Though it can already do
> such things, directly.)

cat track to an audio editor maybe?

> Another way of showing how audio isn't really a file system:  Think
> about streaming radio.

How about real radio? Or, in fact, air?

> It's a similar situation, choose a channel,
> listen to what comes through.

Uh, huh.

> You have a basic selection method, but
> after that trying to shoehorn it into the file system model breaks down.

You are unnaturally constraining the definition of a file system.

Native FORTH has a file system. The user implements, interprets, and
maintains it but it is a file system.

Joel Rees