On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:51, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:27:47PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:46:37PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > > > I'm having some trouble loading my audio cd through /cdrom directory. > > > Before I start talking about the problem, here are the files that are of > > > use to this problem. > > [...] > > > I can actually load audio files through /dev/hdc and /dev/cdrom but I > > > cannot load them through /cdrom. I can mount and run data cds perfectly > > > through /cdrom but the audio files don't show up there for some reason. > > > Does anyone have an idea why this doesn't work? I'm looking to solve this > > > problem rather than to ignore it and use /dev/hdc or /dev/cdrom to load > > > audio files. Any help or suggestion is greatly appreciated. > > > > Data disks generally have a file system, while audio disks generally > > don't. You need a file system to mount the disk. You can get a list of > > tracks that are on a disk using a package like cdcd (on the command > > line, "cdcd tracks"). > > > > You are probably familiar with the basic concept of formatting floppies > > for general use. The formatting first sets the sector size, interleave, > > the number of cylinders used on the disk. After that, a file system may > > be put onto the disk, a common one being FAT12. When that is done, you > > can mount the floppy. However, the disk does not need to have a file > > system put onto it; a fair number of my floppies that I use don't (file > > transfer using "tar -rf /dev/floppy/0u1440 foo"). If I try to mount > > one one of those floppies, I get an error. I can, however, read the > > files contained in the archive. All I do list the files is > > "tar -tf /dev/floppy/0u1440", to extract, "tar -xf /dev/floppy/0u1440 > > foo". > > > > With many audio CDs it is a similar situation to that of floppies with > > no file system. While you can listen to the disks by specifying the > > drive, you cannot mount them. You can take a look at the contents, but > > you need to use something designed for that task. > > In Windoze, you can get a (very buggy) patched DLL that turns audio > tracks into regular files, so you can rip tracks simply by copying the > files, etc. Surely there must be some way to get the same functionality > in Linux? cddafs.o? > > Pigeon
There is cdfs, but my experience with it has been that while it has *claimed* that the files it was listing were WAV files, they weren't. They weren't CDR tracks, either. It might be that it needed a bit more code tuning at the time, and is far better now. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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