Chad Cunningham wrote:
>
> Hi, I seem to have hit a wall here... I want to do an mp3 ripper for Mac
> OSX, which I thought would be a simple enough project, but it's getting
> more complicated. The OS automatically mounts cd's in a /Audio CD
> directory as aiff files. I thought this would make things easy as I could
> just write a front end which needed no CD access and could just work with
> the files. However, it turns out that they are actually AIFC files. This
> has caused me some problems as lame, sox, and anything else I can find
> cannot deal with AIFC. So I went back to the drawing board and planned to
> just access the cdrom and rip the tracks off, however I've learned that
> for some reason, OSX set's the cd device to root read only. Now this makes
> absolutely no sense to me, but at least they do state that this "may
> change" in the future. So the up shot is, if I want this to be available
> as an end user product, I can't access the cdrom directly at this time.
You can make your program setuid root :-)
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