I posted a question a while back about using the soundcard's D/A instead of the one in the CDROM drive. I've since tried cdparanoia and cdda2wav. They both work, but they both spin the hard disk constantly when writing an audio file, even if the file isn't being written to the hard disk. Anyone know why they are doing this? What I would like is to read the data from the CD and pipe it to my soundcard's D/A, without the hard disk being involved. -chris