tommypeters;146053 Wrote: > Simple. Even with a fast drive you will have to wait over a minute for > the CD to start to play, which no-one wants. Or you will have to start > playing immediately and "read-ahead" concurrently with playing and keep > track of where you are reading and where you are playing from. Sounds > easy, but only a few (like Meridian) does it well.
A friend of mine does high-end audio stuff (tube amps mostly) He developed a prototype "CD Transport" that was a linux box with some perl scripts, cdparanoia, and a decent spdif out. He made a front panel user interface with basic CD player controls.. the system would simply buffer the tracks to the disk.. if the user selected a different track, it would stop riping and skip to the next track. Once completed riping, it would keep a cache of those tracks around, and (I think it might have been freedb style disc IDs) plays the tracks from disc. The UI to select which disc to play was simple.. just put the disc in the drive and it would play the wav files (or flac I think) -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28621 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
