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In <842@pdxgate.UUCP>, jayward@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Jay Ward) writes:
>In article <2313@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>In <1990Dec2.073639.22387@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>>>In article <90335.112615AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu> AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>>
>>>> I have a Pioneer (sp) 6pack player. On the back there are two pin-outs
>>>> for a receiver to take control of the player. I was wondering if there
>>>> was anyway for me to use these pin-outs to let my amiga take control
>>>> of the CD player; thereby, making it into a CD-ROM jukebox.

                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>>>
>>>I'm no world class expert on CD-ROM, so take this with a grain of salt.
>>>
>>>Both digital CD-ROM and audio CDs use binary data on the media, in the
>>>sense that it is either on or off, with no intermediate states.
>>>
>
>[MUCH STUFF ON THE OPERATION OF CD-ROM DELETED]
>
>I think that all the original poster wanted to do was to take control of
>his CD player using his Amiga, not to use it as a CD-ROM player.  You know,
>control the six-pack using a nice Intuition Screen.
>
>Boy, give you techies an inch.....
>
>:-)
>Message-ID: <49144@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>

Heh heh... well, though 'jukebox' can be taken to be usical, it is also used
for anything that can auto-change media for you. It was the reference to CD-ROM
that made difference, since CD-ROM is very specifically NOT an audio format.

-larry

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