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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!oasys!curt
- From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: reading CD data
- Message-ID: <30056@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:15:29 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.205345.7268@news.media.mit.edu>
- Reply-To: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
- Lines: 28
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- In comp.sys.next.programmer, mike@media-lab.mit.edu (Michael Hawley) writes:
- >Anyone have the driver code to read digital data
- >from audio CD's using the CD-ROM drive?
- >Digitizing through the DSP is adequate but silly.
-
- I don't think it's possible with the NeXT CD-ROM drive (or with
- most CD-ROM drives for that matter.)
-
- The problem is that CDs have a strange blocking. If I remember the
- numbers correctly, CDs use 24 byte frames. 98 frames form one subcode
- block - which contains 2352 bytes of music data and 98 bytes of subcode
- data. 75 of these blocks makes up exactly 1 second of stereo 44.1K
- music. CD-ROMs store only 2048 data bytes in each of these 2352 music
- blocks. As I understand it, the standard chips that are used in CD-ROM
- drives to read data don't give you access to the extra bytes in each
- block, so at best, you would on be getting 87% of the music data.
-
- I've read that the CD-ROM drive on some SGI systems can read all
- the music data, so at least someone has made a CD-ROM drive that
- can read the music data, but I think it requires more than just
- the right software driver. I could be wrong however.. the NeXT
- CD-ROM might be able to do it.
-
- On a related subject, I heard that some of the "newer" NeXT CD-ROM
- drives could read multi-session Kodak Photo-CDs. Does anyone know
- if this is true?
-
- Curt
-