Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> wrote:

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >
> > sound-juicer has several problems:
> >
> > -	it depends on gstreamer/libcdio which is not a logal code combination.
> >
> > -	It uses libmusicbrainz to extract the TOC and gets wrong TOC 
> > 	information for CD-extra, then tries to "play" data tracks.

> No doubt true (as you clearly know about this stuff), however:
>
> - Irrelevant to me as it plays the cds as required (thats *all* it need 
> to do).
> - An enhanced cd with data tracks etc is not actually a cd according the 
> Phillip spec...

Well, it is on the Philips specs and is called CD+ or CDextra.

A more general problem is the license incompatibility with libcdio. Sun dropped
libcdio already a year ago after Sun lawyers detected the problem and I expect 
that Linux distros will do the same soon.

Jörg

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