It could be done though ... but quite a lot of work for probably very little use.
For example - some Raspberry Pi systems can emulate a USB Mass Storage Device. So ... if you could run in that mode while still have access to a different USB port to plug in a USB CD drive ... then you could represent each found track on the drive as a different file and then when there is an access attempt to the contents of a file you could do a real-time extraction of the audio track from the CD and present it as WAV. In the background you could extract the rest of the tracks and store (perhaps as FLAC or MP3) the rest of the tracks in memory so that subsequent access requests to them would start playing more quickly. I am pretty sure I have read about someone making a virtual file system something like this but I can't find references to it ... implying it has not been discussed on internet very much which would support my view this is a very marginal use case. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114471 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
