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From: adam@flammulated.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
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Subject: Re: Get audio data out of CD_ROM
Keywords: Mac, audio CD
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.141644.29370@rice.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 14:16:44 GMT
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I don't know about capturing the sound that comes out, but it's actually
quite easy to _play_ an audio CD through a CD-ROM player.  Apple makes a CD
Audio Toolkit that adds play capabilities to Hypercard, and there are other,
similar packages out there (not that I know much about them).  I would
suspect that if you had some sampling capability it would be very easy to read
an audio CD and store the sound on the fly.  I think most references on the ISO
9660 format also include a little bit about the various codes that tell the player
where an audio track starts and such (ours certainly does, but it's pretty
archaic--1988, I think.
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