Re: How to play a CD?

Lew Pitcher wrote:
root@bitsie:/mnt# # Thelonious Monk's Greatest Hits

root@bitsie:/mnt# mount -t cdfs -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

root@bitsie:/mnt# ls -la /mnt/cdrom
total 534372
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2006-04-28 19:31 ./
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2006-04-18 18:16 ../
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 134640284 2006-04-28 19:31 track-01.wav
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 103386908 2006-04-28 19:31 track-02.wav
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 44899724 2006-04-28 19:31 track-03.wav
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 40837820 2006-04-28 19:31 track-04.wav
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 26158988 2006-04-28 19:31 track-05.wav
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 60340604 2006-04-28 19:31 track-06.wav
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 29360060 2006-04-28 19:31 track-07.wav
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 119752124 2006-04-28 19:31 track-08.wav
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 121375004 2006-04-28 19:31 track-09.wav

root@bitsie:/mnt# file /mnt/cdrom/track-01.wav
/mnt/cdrom/track-01.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft
PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz

[snip]

In what way you answered OP question, why it is so complicated and why
his favourite program does not play a CD with File->Open dialog?
So what it is that you want to say? Are you trying to answer OP question
or just showing off how smart you are?

A decent file manager (Konqueror for instance) can, after referring to
CDDB database, "show" an album title, individual songs titles, and show
not only .wav files but also mp3 and ogg files. Does it mean that these
files and information are on a disc? Nope. :| What the file manager
shows is only a "potential", what can be extracted from digital tracks
of a CD, from DIGITAL TRACKS that ARE NOT FILES.

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Did any of these titles taught you how to insert a proper signature
delimiter?

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