Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Digital CD Player for Linux
From: Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey_AT_boosthardware.com)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 12:46:48 EEST
Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
> 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.
try setcd or cdsetspd or the plextor-tool package
>
> bye,
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