> I posted a question a while back about using the soundcard's D/A instead of > the one in the CDROM drive. I've since tried cdparanoia and > cdda2wav. They both work, but they both spin the hard disk constantly > when writing an audio file, even if the file isn't being written to > the hard disk. Anyone know why they are doing this? What I would like > is to read the data from the CD and pipe it to my soundcard's D/A, > without the hard disk being involved. -chris > this is not tested (no audio cd at hand ...), so it possibly does not work [as expected]: cdda2wav -e -H -t1+ /dev/null the -H switch _might_ be the solution. or maybe -N? really no idea. just play around with it a bit.
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