Hi
Debian has a utility called setcd that can do that.
didi
Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for the ideas, but I really was looking for a way to tell the CD to
> read the data slowly :-)
>
> The point is that like this I can just cd into the CD and play the music
> without a big hassle, and I know that for Win there is such a program
> (called CD-Bremse) and I was just thinking that it might exist for Linux,
> too.
>
> Schlomo
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Schlomo Schapiro
>
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> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Nadav Har'El wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 01, 2000, Schlomo Schapiro wrote about "How to slow down noisy CDROM":
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > does anybody know how to slow down a noisy CD ? I use it mostly to play
> > > MP3s and the vacuum cleaner noise doesn't fit the music (and the CD would
> > > be still fast enough if it would run at 4x instead of 36x).
> >
> > Another solution is to cache the music: if your CD player can read at 20x
> > speed (I don't believe the manufacturer's data to represent anything of
> > relevance to the truth ;)), then you can read 15 minutes of music in 5
> > seconds (quick calculation: mp3 is about 10 times smaller than raw CD data,
> > 20x makes you able to read data 200 times faster than it will play later).
> >
> > So you can write a small script which, every 15 minutes, reads the next
> > 15 minutes of music from the CD onto the hard disk. It will only be 5
> > seconds of noise every 15 minutes (even if it's 10 seconds, it's not too
> > bad - if the drive needs to seek (the music is not contiguous) it will take
> > somewhat longer, but still not too bad). If you want you can do other
> > varients on this idea: e.g., if you have 100MB free space on your harddrive
> > you can read 100 minutes of music from the CD (this will take 30-60 seconds,
> > I think), once every 100 minutes. Given enough disk-space you can even copy
> > the entire CD (650MB) to the hard-disk and play the music from there.
> >
> > By the way, there's a commercial mp3 player that takes this approach for
> > somewhat different purpose: that player has a 10 GB hard disk to store
> > *tons* of music, random access and rewritable. However because it is a
> > portable player, the hard disk is problematic if it spins continuously -
> > it wastes a lot of energy and it can be damaged by too-violent motions.
> > So what they do is have a memory cache of, say, 4MB that holds 4 minutes
> > of music. The drive has to be spun up once every 4 minutes, the 4MB of
> > data is read in a couple of seconds, and the drive is spun down. The
> > player can (in theory - I don't remember the implentation details) choose
> > an appropriate time to read from the hard-disk using motion sensors, and
> > if a read fails it can retry a while later - while still playing what it
> > has left in the 4-minute buffer.
> >
> >
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> >
>
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