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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Get audio data out of CD_ROM
Keywords: Mac, audio CD
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Date: 10 Jun 91 19:43:22 GMT
References: <4271@borg.cs.unc.edu>
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In article <4271@borg.cs.unc.edu>, yuan@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Xialin Yuan) writes:
|> Does someone know how to get the Mac to read audio data from CD-ROM,
|> and would like to give me a pointer to the directions. I have been
|> looking for help for quite some time.

This is not possible with any current CD-ROM products for any type of
computer system.  The closest you can come is to plug a cable from the
headphone output of the CD-ROM drive into the input of an audio digitizer
on your system of choice.

CD-ROM drives need both hardware and firmware modifications to read audio
data from audio CD's (called CD-DA) across the SCSI bus.  In other words
the manufacturers have to produce new products.

|> 
|> What I would like to do is to copy lots of our CD sound into Mac directly,
|> (of course I have to convert into appropiate formats ) so we would have
|> sound more easily available in Mac, our sound server. I tried SCSI manager, 
|> and it seemed that it did not work out it quite right.
|> 

What out for copyrights on the CD's.
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