[ale] CD reader/writer woes

[Bjorn Dittmer-Roche]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Pete Hardie wrote:

> On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:23:03 -0400, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
>> Pete Hardie wrote:
>>> Ok, so here's the story:
>>>
>>> CD R/W drive,  RH 9, XCDRoast works just fine, I can read data CDs,
>>> fine, and the Gnome CD player works fine, but Grip repeatedly
>>> fails,losing the CD info and saying "No Disk"
>>
>> Try a different burning software?  Drop to the command line and give
>> cdrecord a try.  Install k3b, give it a spin.
>
> The burning software seems fine, I just have trouble playing CDs via
> grip.  I'm trying to get some Halloween music ripped for a big set of
> shuffled songs on the 31st, and I'm trying to listen to tracks on
> grip, and then rip the ones I like.   I appear to be able to rip
> tracks in most cases, but listening to  tracks gets lots of "no Disc"
> errors.

There are two ways to play audio data off a CD on a computer:

1. tell the cd player to play it.
2. read the audio data directly, buffer and play it like you play a wav 
file.

I am guessing that grip uses the latter, more error prone method, while 
your other software uses the first method, which almost always produces 
better results. This is essentially a hardware issue, but you could 
probably get around it by using software that plays back using the first 
technique.

 	bjorn


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