[ale] CD reader/writer woes

[Pete Hardie]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:52:28 -0400 (EDT), Bjorn Dittmer-Roche
<bjorn at sccs.swarthmore.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yeah.  I was trying to listen and rip off the same program, so I could
easily step thorugh the tracks I wanted, but I guess I'll have to do
it the hard way.....


Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.