Writing CD

[NoOp]

On 03/28/2008 12:34 PM, Caleb Marcus wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 11:58 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> 
>> On 03/28/2008 11:33 AM, Caleb Marcus wrote:
>>  Try browsing an audio CD in Ubuntu
>> > with the file manager... you can't. Red Book audio CDs don't have a
>> > filesystem, they're just plain audio.
>> > 
>> 
>> Well, actually you can. On my Hardy nautilus will show:
>> 
>> Location: cdda://scd0/
>> 
>> and then proceed to list the various tracks:
>> 
>> Track 1.wav <size> WAV audio
>> Track 2.wav <size> WAV audio
>> Track 3.wav <size> WAV audio
>> etc.
>> 
>> Interestingly enough, on my other system (Gutsy) nautilus claims:
>> "cdda:///scd0/" is not a valid location
>> Please check the spelling and try again.
>> [note the 3 /// vs // in Hardy]
>> Even if I manually try: cdda://scd0/ in Gutsy it won't work.
>> 
>> So, it looks as if whatever was broken in Nautilus on Gutsy has been
>> fixed in Hardy.
>> 
> 
> Actually, that's simply because Hardy uses the new GVFS rather than
> Gnome-VFS, and GVFS provides functionality for representing Red Book CDs
> as collections of WAV files, when, in fact, Red Book CDs contain neither
> files nor WAV-contained audio. It's just a more convenient
> representation that was added when GVFS was implemented.
> 
> 

Ah. That explains it - thanks!

Perhaps that would also explain why I could do the same in Windows (see
the Track 1.wav <size> WAV audio etc) and not in Gutsy. Confused the
heck out of me back in January...

http://www.nabble.com/Browse-Audio-CD-in-Nautilus-td14769901.html