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- From: simon@ivem.uucp (Simon Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Audio CD to digital data?
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 15:14:11 GMT
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- In article <885.2A6FD1BC@afitamy.fidonet.org> Jason.Honingford@afitamy.fidonet.org (Jason Honingford) writes:
- >*** Quoting Mario Giannella to All dated 07-23-92 ***
- >> Are there any hardware/software packages to allow one to put an audio
- >> Compact Disc into a CD-ROM drive, and get a direct digital data file?
- >> (i.e. skipping the middle step of Digital CD to ANALOG and then
- >> digitizing the ANALOG sound).
- >
- >I'm quoting from Amiga World (August 1992), page 38, Common Misconceptions
- >About CD-ROM:
- >
- >3. You can use a CD-ROM drive to capture perfect digital samples from your
- > compact-disc music collection. --->
- >
- >Nice try, but no.... Although they use somewhat similar mechanisms, audio and
- >CD-ROM manufacturers have agreed to make this impossible. Ofcourse, most
- >CD-ROM drives can play compact discs. You can feed the music to a sound
- >sampler and record it like any other sound. The results are very good because
- >of the direct link from the player to the sampler. These results, however, are
- >no different from those you get by connecting your stereo to the sampler;
- >you've simply turned your CD-ROM into a very expensive boom box.
-
- I know that there are some CD-ROM drives that does this. The SGI Indigo's
- CD-ROM drive can do it by sending the digital audio data through the SCSI
- port. The thing is you need software to access the digital data from the
- SCSI port. Check with the various CD-ROM vendors and see if it sends digital
- data from any type of CD to the SCSI port (I think most do, even if it's audio)
- then either write your own driver for it, or pay someone else to :)
-
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- * Simon Lee * Microscopy and Imaging Resource *
- * simon@ivem.ucsd.edu * Intermediate Voltage Electron Microscopy *
- * sulee@ucsd.edu * UC San Diego, Dept. of Neuroscience *
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