Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 16:15:27 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: Hello Nicolas, >Pictures or it did not happen. Didn't bother because it appeared to be a well-understood phenomenon, based on my limited research. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "The

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-09 Thread Nicolas George
Brad Rogers (12024-01-09): > Seen it happen; Long filenames, mixed case, and files saved at the > beginning of a session of copying multiple files would be lost because > the FAT was filled, and overwritten from the start by files added later > in the session. > > We are talking in excess of

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 13:25:52 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: Hello Nicolas, >What are you talking about? FAT does not get “overloaded” by long >filenames. Seen it happen; Long filenames, mixed case, and files saved at the beginning of a session of copying multiple files would be lost because the

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-09 Thread Nicolas George
Brad Rogers (12024-01-09): > Depends; I ended up buying three smaller sticks, because the > limitations of the file system meant that the File Allocation Table > got filled up wy before the larger capacity memory sticks did. The USB sticks we were discussing in this thread are way below the

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-09 Thread Nicolas George
Haines Brown (12024-01-08): > and that seems to have fixed the buffer problem. Nice. > The scripts folder is in my path. I holds many commands I regularly > use. > > Turns out that the "play" command was earlier taken by another > application. So I changed the command from play to Play, and

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 21:09:54 + Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: Hello Michael, >Alternatively, they also offer SanDisk SDXC 128 GB memory cards at $14 >a piece. One such will easily hold 1000 CDs at near-CD quality MP3. Depends; I ended up buying three smaller sticks,

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Monday 08 January 2024 03:49:17 pm Haines Brown wrote: > where can find an inexpensive drive to hold about 1000 cds and find > the time do all the converting? ㋡ The 4TB drive in my server has about 77GB roughly holding a similar amount of stuff. The time was over a rather lengthy period

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The time to physically go through all those CDs, now that's a slightly > different issue. Once you've setup your "rip" tool (I used mostly `grip` back then, not sure what's still maintained, maybe `abcde`?), it's a small matter of putting the next CD in the drive when the previous one is

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 8 Jan 2024 15:49 -0500, from hai...@histomat.net (Haines Brown): >> But unless you cannot spare 60 megaoctets somewhere, save yourself a lot >> of trouble: just run cdparanoia -B then opusenc and put back the audio >> CD at the back of the shelf where it belongs. > > where can find an

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 05:37:00PM +0100, Michel Verdier wrote: > On 2024-01-08, Haines Brown wrote: > > But the $ play command only returns the aplay -help info. Why won't > > the script work? > > You fumble on another "play" program. Try "type -a play" to > confirm. Then just rename your

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 04:32:37PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > I suspect this is because of insufficient read-ahead or insufficient > bandwidth, as you seems to assume to based on your comment on buffer > size. You might be able to use --cache=yes to improve matters. To judge by the man

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 05:23:34PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Haines Brown (12024-01-08): > > I find that often (such as wiki.debian.org/CDDVD) I'm told to mount Understood about not mounting CDROM disks. Confused music with data disks > > The mplayer command $ mplayer -cdrom-device

CD-DA sector addressing, was Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i cannot contribute much to the practical issues with playing music. But i'd like to clarify technical properties of CD-DA media: Nicolas George wrote: > compared to data CDs, audio CDs lack one layer of error-correcting code True. Another drawback is that CD-DA sectors cannot be read by

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Nicolas George
Michael Kjörling (12024-01-08): > Note that while CD-DA disks are technically CD-ROM disks (compact disk > read only media), in typical usage "CD-ROM" is taken to mean a CD > which contains _data organized as files within a file system_, often > an ISO-9660 file system typically with extensions

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-01-08, Haines Brown wrote: > I find that often (such as wiki.debian.org/CDDVD) I'm told to mount > the cdrive. But I can play cds without mounting. Wny is mounting > sometimes recommended? It talks about mounting "data" CD. Audio CD cannot be mounted and are accessed by device (like

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 8 Jan 2024 11:00 -0500, from hai...@histomat.net (Haines Brown): > I find that often (such as wiki.debian.org/CDDVD) I'm told to mount > the cdrive. But I can play cds without mounting. Wny is mounting > sometimes recommended? You mount a file system. Audio CDs (that is, CD-DA disks) do not

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Nicolas George
Haines Brown (12024-01-08): > I find that often (such as wiki.debian.org/CDDVD) I'm told to mount Please do not remove the protocol part from the URL, it makes auto-detection and copy-pasting more annoying. > the cdrive. I do not see this page suggesting to mount audio CDs. Audio CDs do not