[Wftl-lug] audio CD

[Roger Pryor]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:47:21 -0300
Raul Montagne <montagne57 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> just a curiosity...
...
> This last one (in fact the first one on the list) it opens the audiocd 
> in Konqueror
> and for my surprise it appears several directories:
> In the main, one all the tracks in .wav, then a flac directory, and ogg 
> directory and a mp3 directory.
> In every directory there are all the tracks in the corresponding audio 
> format!
...
> 
> talueguito
> raul
...

Hi Raul:

I got caught by this one last year.  What I think is happening is that
konqueror, or a plugin/helper program, is faking all of that info based
upon the actual content of the CD, which, someone correct me if i'm wrong
please, is in a "raw" PCM format.  If your machine is a bit old (=slow), I
think you will find that copying MP3's from the CD actually takes some
time, probably due to the encoding that is occuring in real time.  

Neatly tricky eh?




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