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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!news.nkn.net!news.panther.net!nemesis!uhclem From: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Subject: Re: Reading audio format CDs? X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 Organization: The Big Blue Box Message-ID: <DpD773.LsD@nemesis.lonestar.org> References: <Dp5HzL.24M@xenitec.on.ca> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 01:09:02 GMT Lines: 21 [0]Vance Shipley (vances@xenitec.xenitec.on.ca) wrote: [0]Is there any way to read music CD tracks directly? I can play [0]them and record them with my sound card but the quality seems [0]poor. Depending on the CD-ROM drive you have, you might be able to get at the audio sectors directly. For example, the Matsushita CR-562 and CR-563 drives allow you to read the 2532 byte sectors which include everything. Just use dd or even cp on /dev/[r]matcd0c to get the raw sectors. If you aren't cloning CDs, you will have to strip the ECC data off to get just the audio PCM information. Note that some (including SCSI) drives do not support reading Red Book audio tracks. A lot of Sony drives seem to be like this, perhaps due to pressure from the music publishing side of Sony. Frank Durda IV <uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org>|"The Knights who say "LETNi" or uhclem%nemesis@rwsystr.nkn.net | demand... A SEGMENT REGISTER!!!" |"A what?" or ...letni!rwsys!nemesis!uhclem |"LETNi! LETNi! LETNi!" - 1983