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From: millsad@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Alan Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: playing audio CDs on HP CD-ROM drive
Message-ID: <1130@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
Date: 14 Aug 90 11:30:46 GMT
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Reply-To: millsad@prlhp1.UUCP (Alan Mills)
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories, Redhill, UK
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I received some mail about this which asked me to expand a little
on my earlier posting.  Just to make sure that what I said was
correct, I tried again and, in fact, I'm listening to a CD as I 
write this (Borodin, if you're interested).
All that I do is to put the CD into the HP-supplied 'caddy' and
insert it into the drive.  After a few seconds it begins to play
and you can listen to it using headphones plugged into the jack
on the front of the drive.  There is a volume control but, of
course, no way to select tracks.  I did try to mount a CD to see
if the laserrom software could access it but alas it didn't seem
to be a filesystem!  Mounting the CD into the caddy is rather
fiddly and it has to be inserted with the label uppermost.  I had
better not complain about the caddy though - I am told that it is
a Philips idea.

To repeat what I said earlier, my drive is an HP Series 6100 Model
600/A HP-IB CD-ROM drive.  I haven't seen the Series 6000 Model
330S or 660S mass storage systems which take a CD-ROM player as
one of their modules but, from the brochure which I have, it would
seem that they have similar audio facilities.

I am looking forward to a future release of 'Softbench' with the
possibility of configuring your environment with audio options.
Just think: edit to Ellington or Elgar, debug to Debussy or the
Doors.  All at the click of a mouse button!  Just remember that
you heard it here first!

Alan Mills         Philips Research Laboratories
   Cross Oak Lane, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 5HA, U.K
            Telephone +44 0293 785544