James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Hmm. It's been a while since the last time I mounted an audio CD on a > computer (I have stereo systems and a portable DVD player for that), but as > I recall, whenever I did, the tracks simply showed up as .aiff files.
There was a lot being hidden from you. When everything goes perfectly, it can be hidden transparently and not too slowly. cdparanoia is what you want when things go wrong, which they do remarkably often at both the small and large scale. > And on the rare occasions when I've actually needed to convert them for some > other purpose (scoring a video, or creating a ringtone for my cellular > phone), I was always able to find something to do it. Once you have the reconstructed data off the optical disc, every common tool can work with it. -dsr-
