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- Here's the tests I made on my Quadra 660AV to know who much compatible is the
- third-party drivers are to Apple's 5.x drivers. All this anomalies are
- *NOT* caused by Audiodeck (or not as far as I know). Audiodeck follows
- the standard suite of calls, and don't do anything fancy (well, it
- depends what you call fancy or not).
-
- FWB (with AppleCD300i drive)
- ----------------------------
-
- Most of these problems are reproductible with CDT Remote program, which
- comes with FWB's drivers.
-
- - When switching modes, or selecting a new track, you might hear some
- glitches with the sound (the sound going down and back up very fast).
- This is the reaction of CD-ROM Toolkit when asked to stop at a certain
- track (it's a bug if you ask me). To solve this problem, I lower
- the CD-ROM volume to 0, then, I raise it back after the play command
- is issued. This in fact remove the glitch when asking to play.
-
- - On *SOME* discs (I've tried 10 discs, and about 3-4 showed this behaviour),
- when on stop and ask Audiodeck to play the first track, by either
- double clicking on the playlist, pressing play, or selecting
- the first track via the popup menu, Audiodeck will start playing
- the track, and then skip to the next. Why?! For some reason, FWB's
- change the current status from Play to Stop, fooling Audiodeck. This
- is all true ONLY when the first track is the track #1 ;-). Also,
- it is possible that a disc that showed this behaviour on a particular
- session won't show it on a next reboot...
-
- - FWB doesn't support the command to stop at a particular track.
- Or I just can't make it to do it. This result in the fact that
- if your computer is pretty busy, Audiodeck might not have the
- time to notice that it is currently playing a de-activated track
- or a track which is not suppose to be played.
-
- For exemple, let say that the playlist order is 4,3,2,6,5,1; Audiodeck
- is currently playing track 2; your computer is too busy and Audiodeck
- can't notice that the track 2 is finished; track *3* starts to
- play, but as soon Audiodeck get some CPU time back, it will
- skip to track 6. With Apple's drivers, the CD will STOP after
- 2 because Audiodeck asked to drivers to STOP after 2.
-
- - The volume react like Apple CD-ROM 4.x. I mean when you drag the
- volume slider around the 1/3 of the slider, the sound volume will
- be near/at zero.
-
- - When using the backward scanning button, sometimes FWB driver will
- switch itself to Stop mode, once again fooling Audiodeck into
- believe the track has ended, and Audiodeck will issue a Play
- command for the next track.
-
- Spirit
- ------
-
- - Quite simple, Spirit CD 1.40 doesn't work on my Macintosh with my
- Apple CD300 drive. Sorry, no comments about this driver. But
- as far as I heard, Audiodeck is pretty useless with it since
- Spirit drivers doesn't seems to report the correct Current Track
- confusing Audiodeck into thinking that the track ended and should
- skip to the next one. Well, to be sure, just try Audiodeck with
- your system and see for yourself.
-
- Apple 4.x
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-
- - When you drag the volume slider around the 1/3 of the slider, the
- sound volume will be near/at zero. This is a bug in the driver.
-
- Apple 5.x
- ---------
-
- - Works like a charm :-).
-