On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 03:13:09PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Hi all, > > first of all, thanks to the authors of cdio(1), which > (as I just found) can even do ripping and cddb queries. > > Regarding the cdrip feature, I have the following question: > why was WAV chosen as the format of the ripped tracks (as > opposed to raw CDR's whose format is known in advance) ?
I did not write the code, but a) WAV is a well known format. probably all audio players/converters support WAV format. b) aucat(1) (previously and in now legacy mode) treats raw streams as mono mulaw @ 8kHz, so playing a raw stream with aucat(1) (previously or now in legacy mode) would not work correctly. c) the WAV header is the first 44 bytes of the stream. it's quite simple to turn a WAV into a raw stream, if a raw stream is preferred. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
