> Depends on your view point. There are tracks , that could be interpeted
> as files.
> True there are no directories , unless you count sessions as ones ...
...yeah. But in most cases one would not want to consider a track as a
file, since they are written in raw bit format to the CD. There is no file
descriptor, anything.
> They wont read the data. They will send a PLAY command to the drive,
> which would
> then read the data, convert it to analog form, send that thru a wire to
> the
> sound card, where it is mixed to the Line-out if the card.
this is true...
> <going off topic ...>
> I prefer the normal way : read the data , send it to /dev/audio,
> like with music from hard-drives, floppies , ZIP media , MO disks ...
if you do that then you waste CPU cycles
why read the data off the disc, (which takes cpu cycles), pipe the data to
/dev/audio (more cpu cycles), have sound card interperet it (even MORE CPU
cycles), and then finally output to speakers? Why not let the
microcontrollers in the CD-ROM firmware do that for you? Makes a lot more
sense to me.
Kelsey Hudson khudson@ctica.com
Software Engineer
Compendium Technologies, Inc (619) 725-0771
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