Saturday, June 01, 2024

Re: mounting audio cd

Hi

cdio seems to be the right for me,
thank you for all your thoughts.

Manfred

On 6/1/24 16:16, Nick Holland wrote:
> On 5/31/24 14:15, MIZSEI Zoltán wrote:
>> Interestingly BeOS and Haiku lets you to mount an audio cd, it
>> generates a vfs from the toc and shows the tracks as wav or flac
>> (fixme), it does an automatic conversion behind the courtains if you
>> copy a file from an audio cd.
>
> To each their own, I guess, but I don't consider this a good idea.
>
> To me, that sounds like a lot of unneeded magic going on at the kernel
> level that should be a non-root, application thing.  The few times I
> want to directly see the data on a CD, I'm generally digitizing the
> contents of the CD, and running an application to do that is just
> fine with me.
>
> OpenBSD provides cdio(1), which has the "cdrip" option to extract
> audio tracks to .wav files.  In the base system.
>
> Nick.
>

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