Benjamin Sher wrote:
Ben Steeves wrote:
On 6/27/05, Benjamin Sher <delphi123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear friends:
Why can Windows read a music CD but not Linux?
Chances are you are using Windows Media Player to play your CDs in
Windows. It reads the data digitally and uses processor cycles to
play the audio. You don't specify which of the myriad players you are
using for Linux but chances are you are using a player which is
accessing the disc in analog -- over the two (or sometimes three) pin
wire that runs from the CD-ROM to your soundcard, and plays the audio
directly from the CD, bypassing your CPU altogether.
This means that you may need to adjust your mixer settings to turn up
the volume or unmute the CD or AUX channel (depending on how the audio
cable is wired to your soundcard) or you might not even have an audio
cord attached at all (many system builders forgo this step assuming
everyone will use a digital method nowadays).
You can read the audio digitally using XMMS (I believe you need an
XMMS plugin for this called "cdread-plugin").
Dear friends:
Everything OK. This subject is closed. By the way, I play my music CD in
Linux on KSCD, which reads the CD "digitally" while playing it.
Thank you again everybody for teaching me about audio vs. data CD's and
CD's vs. DVD's.
That's all well and good, but I've not seen the explanation I saw some
years ago and which makes sense to me.
Windows sees the individual tracks and presents them as files though
they aren't really. Consequently, you can view a music CD in Windows as
if it's a data cd.
AFAIK nothing on Linux does that, though there's no reason not to:
cdparanoia does a fine job of ripping CDs, and as I recall one can
choose an individual track.
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Cheers
John
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