Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 18:26:30 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow <andy@geek4food.org> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So, tell me again why we can't read audio CDs in SCSI drives? Message-ID: <20000106182630.A90750@mega.geek4food.org> In-Reply-To: <20000107020327.B68369@nacamar.net> References: <5510.947202451@zippy.cdrom.com> <20000107020327.B68369@nacamar.net>
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 02:03:29AM +0100, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > detection and removal (real goodd error correction) and this ones also > really fast (10x speed) when youre reading on a plextor drive (such as > my pxw4220t) or something else that has a native mode for extracting > audio. One of the main reasons for springing the extra $$$ for a Plextor is that they (unlike most other CDDA implementations) actually got the firmware right: the beast does jitter correction in firmware, /and/ reads at near-data speeds whilst it does it. Many CD drives with buggy implementations jitter like crazy, and/or won't deliver CDDA much quicker than 1x, regardless of what the rated data speed is. http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~psyche/cdda is a good resource for software links and reviews of various models of CD-ROM drives, if CD-DA ripping is of interest. Most good CDR drives also do a good job of CD-DA ripping (Philips CDD-2000, Toshiba CW-7502, from my direct experience), but you probably don't want to wear 'em out doing CD-DA - at least, I know I don't ;-). Personally, I found that tosha worked perfectly even on a Plextor 6x (the only Plextor with flawed firmware, this is pretty well-known). :-) Something like cdparanoia would probably be good for those cheap IDE CD-ROMs (I bought a couple of 16x Hitachi drives cheap - they don't do CD-DA very well at all). Cheers, AS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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