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Article #856Re: Info needed on CD-Rom Audio
From: Mark Callow
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:23
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:23
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In article <1992Oct14.130445.15513@bnr.ca>, grier@bnr.ca writes: > I am working on a CD-ROM extension to one of our systems. > Accessing the High Sierra data is not much of a problem. > But I need the commands to play audio CD's. If anyone has this > information I'd appreciate it. > You don't give enough information to answer yuor question. However the basic answer is RTFM. Get the manual for the particular brand of CD-ROM drive you have and look for the SCSI commands that cause it to play an audio CD through the headphone jack (or line-out jacks) on the CD-ROM drive. If you want to read audio data from an audio CD into your system you are out of luck unless your system is a Silicon Graphics IRIS Indigo or Personal IRIS 4D/35. SGI ships a specially modified version of the Toshiba 3301B CD-ROM drive that can read audio CD's and transfer the data across the SCSI bus. Currently this is the only CD-ROM drive in the world that can do this. SGI also ships a library,libcdaudio, that makes it easy to take advantage of the special features and a CD player program, cdman, that plays CD's through the Indigo's audio hardware. If you have an Indigo, the answer is still RTFM. -Mark
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!ira.uka.de!gmd.de!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!sgigate!odin!fido!zola!ramoth!msc From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) Subject: Re: Info needed on CD-Rom Audio Message-ID: <r3796jc@zola.esd.sgi.com> Sender: news@zola.esd.sgi.com (Net News) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA References: <1992Oct14.130445.15513@bnr.ca> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 19:23:56 GMT Lines: 27