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Andrew T Duchowski writes
> Hi, 
> 
> I've had several replies as to my problems with audio discs and
> playing them on my CD-ROM.  I've tried several suggestions, but
> none of them work.  My CD-ROM still complains that audio disks
> are unrecognizable (although I was able to read siggraph '92
> proceedings disc [ISO 9660 format]).
> 
> I've been told by some that they have the same problem, and 
> by others that CDPlayer0.8 (what I have) doesn't work and I
> should get CDPlayer2.1.
> 

     Since this subject is of more general interest, I'm posting this for
general consumption.

     Anyhow, CDplayer0.8 works quite nicely on my 'station (mono slab, 8Mb
RAM, 105 Mb hard drive, NeXT CD-ROM drive).  The trick is that you have to 
start CDPlayer *before* you insert the audio CD in the drive.

     Audio CD's aren't _directly_ readable (has to do with some copyright
issues), but the player software works by sending SCSI commands to the 
drive (from CDPlayer0.8 README):

===============================================================================
	When a track is requested for playing, cdplayer will send a request to  
the CD SCSI controller to begin audio play, and then exit.  If the request  
fails, an error message will be produced.  Otherwise, the specified track will  
play until completion or another request is made (i.e. cdplayer is used to play  
another track, pause, etc.)!
===============================================================================

     It does make a neat diversion until NS 3.0 arrives :-)!

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