David Balazic
Fri, 06 Oct 2000 01:18:43 -0700
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 :-) -- David Balazic -------------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill & Ted - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ )