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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont .) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: digital audio extraction from CD-ROM via SCSI Date: 8 Nov 1996 18:38:39 -0800 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 21 Message-ID: <560qrf$1g3@itchy.serv.net> References: <55lonc$hi@hannibal.camelot.de> <55slgr$h3@anorak.kew.utl> <SCOTT.96Nov8141107@crux.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net In article <SCOTT.96Nov8141107@crux.dcs.qmw.ac.uk>, Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> wrote: >Or, you could (presumably) just suck blocks of audio data off of the disk and >get your sound as raw bits. I imagine the DACs on your average CDROM drive >are pretty crap to say the least, so you'll get a way better copy if you do it >raw. IIRC, the CD audio and data formats are practically identical so doing >this should be simple(ish). This is incorrect ; the audio data is at a lower level than the cd-data. You need a non-standard CD rom to do this , most won't allow it. The only one I know for sure that will do it is the one they ship with the HPPA systems ; this isn't manufactured by HP, so it has a real part number for a non-HP mfr, but I don't know what it is. -- Sean T. Lamont, President / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson