Re: ripping audio CDs to soundcard
> 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
>
this is not tested (no audio cd at hand ...), so it possibly does not
work [as expected]:
cdda2wav -e -H -t1+ /dev/null
the -H switch _might_ be the solution.
or maybe -N? really no idea. just play around with it a bit.
regards
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