Writing CD

[Karl Larsen]

NoOp wrote:
> 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
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>   
    If you guys will just open the Sound Juicer software it will list 
all the music on the cd you load and tell you what to do if you want to 
save the files. It will also change all the files to .mp3 if you want, 
and I do.

Karl


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