At 10:59 AM -0400 10/7/06, William W. Austin wrote: >On 2006-10-04 18:03:52, Markku Kolkka <markkuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Thufir kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 4. >> lokakuuta 2006 22:28): >>> I was going to extract from a CD, but am getting a dialog >>> window from grip stating: >>> >>> No tracks selected. >>> Rip whole CD? >> >> Did you select any tracks? Did you try ripping the whole CD? >> Did you get any actual errors? >> >>> I can't get >>> the path to that disk out of the GUI file manager (nautilus?). >> >> Audio CDs don't contain any files and can't be mounted, that's >> why you need a ripping program like grip. > >Actually this last stattment is incorrect: if you go to the trouble to >add the cdfs driver available at >http://www.elis.UGent.be/~ronsse/cdfs/. You said this a few days ago, and got this reply: At 9:04 AM -0700 10/2/06, Gordon Messmer wrote: >William W. Austin wrote: ... >> Why not just use the cdfs software -- available at >> http://trappist.elis.ugent.be/~ronsse/cdfs/ >> -- and just mount the audio cd? > >...probably because that really doesn't make anything easier. Ripping >is transparent in most applications. I can't imagine that it's any more >difficult in user space than kernel space, and most applications apply >error detection, which cdfs doesn't. > >So, ripping is easier and produces higher quality results. That's why >most people don't use cdfs. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
