On Freitag 28 August 2009, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> On Fri, August 28, 2009 03:18, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Freitag 28 August 2009, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> >> On Fri, August 28, 2009 02:01, Frank Peters wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:34:24 +0200
> >>>
> >>>> oh really? can mc present an audiocd as ogg/mp3/flac/wav files?
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't think so.
> >>>
> >>> I am not sure what is meant by "present an audio cd," but mc can be
> >>> programmed by the user to accomplish a lot of tasks based on the file
> >>> type. Therefore, although I have not researched this specific
> >>> possibility, I would be inclined to believe that it can be done with
> >>> mc.
> >>
> >> He is talking about a kio-slave that does kind of like the cdfs kernel
> >> module, though in a more limited way.
> >>
> >> In kde, when you enter a cdaudio in your drive and open it, this
> >> kio-slave presents you the cdaudio disk in an fs-like fashion, with a
> >> number of folders. One folder containing ogg files, other mp3 files,
> >> other wav files, and so on, depending on your USE flags and such things
> >>
> >>
> >> This allows you to rip the thing by just dragging files into another
> >> folder, though to tell the truth, it never worked reliably for me in
> >> kde3, I have no idea if it has improved.
> >>
> >> mc already do this for a number of formats, like iso, via vfs's, I have
> >>  no idea how complex would it be to develop this for cdaudio, but, as
> >> said we have cdfs anyway, and mc is not meant to be an audio encoder at
> >> all. I'd vote against this, unless it can be implemented purely as an
> >> vfs module or as an external addon without touching a single line of the
> >> mc core.
> >
> > and cdfs also does the id3 tags?
>
> You really don't understand the nature of command line tools. Usually,
> no tool will do everything. They concentrate on a task, and do it well.
> I don't think cdfs does that, it does't need to. It's an fs driver...
>
> You can copy the file to wherever you want, and encode it and tag it
> however you want. Including that into cdfs would be a nonsense, it would
> replicate the functionality that's already there.

so why are you even bringing cdfs up?

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