Re: [linux-audio-user] Digital CD Player for Linux

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Digital CD Player for Linux
From: Krzys Majewski (majewski_AT_cs.ubc.ca)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 14:52:48 EEST


Andre Pang <ozone_AT_algorithm.com.au> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 08:06:09PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
>
> > Hey I just compiled this plugin and it's great! Doesn't spin my
> > harddrive. But: why is it spinning the CDROM really really fast? It's
> > making all this crazy spinning noise like when you play videogames,
> > and I never get that when I play cd's with grip or xmcd -
>
> It should be no different from the behaviour you see if you use
> cdparanoia or cdda2wav. Digitally extracting audio from a CD
> typically 'plays' the audio at much higher speeds than if you were
> actually just playing the song; some CD-ROMs can rip at >20x
> real-time speed. Your CD-ROM is spinning fast because it's
> ripping at faster-than-realtime speed. There's not much you can
> do about this other than get a CD-ROM that's a bit more quiet :).

Hrm that's what I feared.. what are some quiet CD-ROMs?
I've got a Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-116 0107 which is OK in
normal CD-playing mode but a bit noisy at higher speeds.

-chris


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