[luau] Duplicating Music CD

[W. Wayne Liauh]

Reading an audio CD is much more complicated than we thought.  (Think 
about it, even xcdroast is not able to do direct copying of audio CDs.) 
The problem I am having now appears to be that the xcdroast that came 
with RH 8.0 is broken.  I installed the "updated" xcdroast rpms which 
seems to throw everything in further chaos--now everything is broken, 
including cdrecord.

I don't think you can access an audio CD without going through cdda2wav 
or cdparanoia or other equivalent programs.  Insert an audio CD, run any 
CD player program, then do a kdf, and you will find out that the CDROM 
is not even mounted.


Ray Strode wrote:

>> Music CDs are recorded in a different format, that I don't even know 
>> if they can be access via the block device.  
>
>
>> Also, since the music is in multiple tracks, this wouldn't work.
>
>
> D'oh.  You're right of course.  I suppose my idea would probably blend 
> all the tracks together into one long track.
>
> I assume the audio is available from the block device for most newer 
> drives tho, because most newer drives support
> cdda extraction (w/o the digital -> analog  -> digital evilness), and 
> I assume tho do that through the ATAPI interface.
>
> I don't know, maybe the cdrom driver uses an ioctl interface to 
> manipulate the drive and access various audio tracks
> and things..
> --Ray
>
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