can't mount cdrom

[John Abreau]

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greg at freephile.com writes:

> Thanks for your replies.  It turnss out the disk *is* CDAudio.
> 
> The friend who gave me the CD said it was mp3 files. As I'm not 
> accustomed to burning copies of .cda files, I never thought that the 
> disk could have .cda files on it.  It did.  So in essence, it was like a 
>   store-bought CD.
> 
> I never knew that Linux wouldn't read that format without ripping the 
> files with CDParanoia or some such utility.  I know that there is every 
> sort of converter under the sun, but how come Linux won't just recognize 
> the .cda file format?  After all, KSCD and other players will recognize 
> it.  CDParanoia recognizes the format, how come a full-blown GUI install 
> of Linux doesn't recognize CDAudio?

A CD audio disc doesn't have any files on it to read; it just has the raw 
audio bits. KSCD and the other players don't read files from an audio cd; 
they recognize that it's an audio cd, and tell the cdrom drive to play 
the audio directly into the sound card.

As I understand it, cdparanoia essentially does the same thing; it tells 
the cdrom drive to play the audio through its digital sound output, and 
then writes that audio stream into a file.


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