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From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CD players and PC's
Message-ID: <321@ihdev.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 18:58:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihdev.321
Posted: Mon Sep 23 18:58:35 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 06:49:07 EDT
References: <125@ur-tut.UUCP>
Reply-To: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (55224-P. D. Guthrie)
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Summary: 

In article <125@ur-tut.UUCP> tuba@ur-tut.UUCP (Jon Krueger) writes:
>Anyone out there tried tapping into their CD player
>and tee-ing the digital encoding into their home PC?
>Wonder if there's any way to get CD internals to generate
>something RS-232-like enough to be read into the COMM
>port that most PC's provide.  Might be fun.  If the PC
>can keep up with the bits at playing speeds, you might
>be able to graphically display the sound.
>
>Alternatively, has anyone tried buying a CD player and taking
>it into the computer lab?

A certain company that I once visited (I am not sure if this is
public info yet so I won't say who) has a system that reads the
catalog from the disk and into an Apple 2e which is then used for 
controlling >= 1 CD for (e.g.) a disk jockey. I don't remember
if the actual name of the song is recorded digitally on the disk,
but the system would let you choose a song, it would tell you what
disk to insert, and make sure it was the right one before playing
the song. Pretty neat!!

					Paul Guthrie


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