Audio-CD not mountable

[Joep L. Blom]

On 22/06/13 10:25, Nils Kassube wrote:
>
> As Gene explained already, an audio CD doesn't have a file system. There
> are only raw audio data on it. If you rip the individual tracks they are
> usually stored in wav format which is more or less the raw audio data
> with a header describing how to read those raw data. If you convert it
> to ogg format, you compress the data by eliminating parts of the sound
> which your ear may not notice. Depending on the algorithm used to
> eliminate the extra data, there are some artifacts created though. If
> you now make a raw audio stream from your ogg files, the quality is
> reduced compared to your original CD. Therefore it would be better to
> rip the CD to wav files, if you want to burn them as an audio CD later.
> The difference is that the ogg (and mp3) format is lossy while wav is
> lossless. I suppose you can edit the preferences of any program which
> can rip CDs to use wav format instead of ogg. Another option would be to
> use your CD burning software to copy the audio CD directly.
>
> It looks like Banshee can read audio CDs while the other programs you
> used can only play audio files.
>
>
> Nils
>
Nils,
Thanks for the lucid explanation. The only problem remains that in 
another system with the same operating system the audio CD can be 
mounted and opened with e.g. thunar.
But thanks for the fact that .ogg is as "bad" as .mp3. I'm a musician 
and never use mp3 as I can hear it (even with a hearing loss of ~ 40 db 
at 10 kc). My own recordings are all done with 24-bit and stored as .wav 
files. You can record then on DVD's with 24-bit .wav.
Again, thanks for the information.
Joep