AndyC_772;214073 Wrote: > Reading a CD isn't much different to reading a hard disc - both are > digital, ie. yes or no, right or wrong. Why should playing a .WAV file > directly off a CD-ROM via SlimServer be any different to playing a > regular CD in a CD player?
It depends. An audio CD player reads the music per the RedBook spec. A PC uses CD-EX to Extract the data. It is not the same. Way back in the 90s, many PC CD-rom drives could not do the extraction (which is essentially reading the digital data as you would read a hard disk sector). The normal RedBook way to read the music off a disk is very different. The error correction is different, etc. Most of this is due to the very limited capabilities of microcontrollers at the time when the RedBook spec was written. I believe, that if the spec had been written just five years later, it would have been very different, using more of a digital approach from the start. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pfarrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=200 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36503 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
