-- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 13 February 2003, 03:51 PM +0000): > 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"). > > <snip -- info on how to read raw data from unspecified filesystems> > > 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?
Okay, what with trading emails with Bruce and following this thread, I think I better understand what you all are asking. And I *have* heard of a way to do this -- my understanding is that konqueror has some such facility for browsing the tracks on an audio CD. I haven't done it, so you'll have to investigate yourself, or ask others on the list. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
