On Wednesday 12 March 2003 11:52 am, Frank Murphy wrote: > So it turns out that this is a bug in kscd. Because NewWorld Macs > don't have a wire going from the CD drive to the sound card, the > system has to push the sound to the card itself. It seems that only > xmms has a plugin to do this. Most other programs (including kscd) > just start the CD drive and expect the audio to just end up at the > soundcard. > > There's already a wishlist bug against it in KDE. I added one in > Debian as well.
I hope when somebody addresses this they consider all relevant factors. In Windows (95) when using Easy Cd Creator, if I copy a disk from a CD without that audio cable, I get a digital copy. With the cable installed I seem to get an analog copy. Don't know where the magic is that does that, but the feature is exploitable -- sometimes when I have a bad CD (something with scratches or whatever) I get a better copy going the digital route and sometimes I get a better copy going the analog route. Randy Kramer
