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- From: matt@drefla.mese.com (Matt Brandt)
- Subject: Re: reading CD data
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.204420.12525@drefla.mese.com>
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- Organization: Applied Engineering
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:44:20 GMT
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- Ken Lui writes
- > In article <30056@oasys.dt.navy.mil> curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- writes:
- > >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.
- >
- > The SGI and new Apple CD-ROM drives (Toshiba makes the SGI unit,
- > while Sony makes the Apple unit) supports the proper SCSI command
- > to access audio data from audio CDs. I haven't tried it, but
- > someone mentioned in a comp.sys.mac.* newsgroup said that with
- > the newer Macs and the Apple 300i drive, he was able to
- > disconnect the supplied microphone and record directly from an
- > audio CD into a Mac SND file. However it's done, it's certainly
- > possible--I didn't followup to find out what the sampling rate
- > was.
- >
- In the new apple machines I believe that they hook the audio output from
- the CD player into the mic input on the motherboard. That is how they play
- the sound. I don't think you can access the digital sound data.
-
- matt
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