Hi, Nicolas George wrote: > To be accurate, mount only directs the kernel into doing the reads and > looking for filesystems.
Yes. But in hindsight my explanation was already more technical than appropriate. "mount(8) is not the right way to access an audio CD." would have been better. But i was carried away by the fine specimen of an SCSI error message. > There are two ways for playing an audio CD. > The CD drive can play the audio CD all by itself. Those have become rare meanwhile. Most DVD drives and all BD drives seem to have no sound signal outlets. > Or the CD drive can read the audio CD, as you have described, and the > application can send the audio data on the fly to the audio controller. That's indeed the proposal i want to make. > I think you would be better off ripping the CD and then > listening to the resulting file. For that job i could even offer my program cdrskin. (See example "Extract audio tracks and CD-TEXT from CD into directory /home/me/my_cd" at the end of its man page.) The classic CD-DA ripper is cdda2wav. Have a nice day :) Thomas
