Reading an audio CD is much more complicated than we thought. (Think
about it, even xcdroast is not able to do direct copying of audio CDs.)
The problem I am having now appears to be that the xcdroast that came
with RH 8.0 is broken. I installed the "updated" xcdroast rpms which
seems to throw everything in further chaos--now everything is broken,
including cdrecord.
I don't think you can access an audio CD without going through cdda2wav
or cdparanoia or other equivalent programs. Insert an audio CD, run any
CD player program, then do a kdf, and you will find out that the CDROM
is not even mounted.
Ray Strode wrote:
Music CDs are recorded in a different format, that I don't even know
if they can be access via the block device.
Also, since the music is in multiple tracks, this wouldn't work.
D'oh. You're right of course. I suppose my idea would probably blend
all the tracks together into one long track.
I assume the audio is available from the block device for most newer
drives tho, because most newer drives support
cdda extraction (w/o the digital -> analog -> digital evilness), and
I assume tho do that through the ATAPI interface.
I don't know, maybe the cdrom driver uses an ioctl interface to
manipulate the drive and access various audio tracks
and things..
--Ray
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