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

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Digital CD Player for Linux
From: Frank Barknecht (barknech_AT_ph-cip.uni-koeln.de)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 11:17:53 EEST

Andre Pang hat gesagt: // Andre Pang wrote:

> 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 :).

Another solution could be a tool, that limits the speed of your CD-drive.
I know of one, but that's only for MS-Windows-OSes: http://www.cd-bremse.de
[CD Bremse is German for "CD brakes"]. Maybe there is such a tool for
linux, too.

bye, 

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