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- From: rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk (Richard Lloyd)
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- Subject: HP's CD-ROM drive (playing audio CDs and how it could be improved)
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 10:22:38 GMT
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- In article <C0p90C.371@fc.hp.com>, rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:
- > Source for xcd is not available.
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- Which is frustrating to say the least !
-
- For those willing to install XView3, the 1.0 release of WorkMan is a nice
- audio CD player for the (disappointingly dumb) Toshiba CD-ROM drive that HP
- sell. And yes, it comes with source code of course. [Shameless plug warning]
- You can get XView3 and WorkMan from our site ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk (138.253.42.172)
- - see the directory /hpux/X11R4/XView3 for the various goodies.
-
- CD-ROM drive question for folks out there:
-
- Why oh why do most CD-ROM drives use a stupid caddy, especially when all home
- CD players use the much nicer sliding tray mechanism ? Caddies are a real pain
- in the arse (liable to be lost/broken or quite often don't seat properly when
- I push them in) - wake up HP and release a CD ROM drive that:
-
- 1. Has software volume control and balance for the audio out socket (failing
- that, have a volume slider rather than the crude 3-position volume switch).
- 2. Allows the music data to be read from the SCSI bus (I'm dying to see a
- real-time spectrum analysis of the music !).
- 3. Has a sliding tray as part of the player - ditch that caddy scheme !!
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