Re: poor quality & glitches - all tracks on CD show unreported loss of streaming

On 10/22/2003 09:09 AM Mikko Nummelin wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Adam Hardy wrote:
>>The CD has some stupid virus on it to load in Windows and stop ripping,
>>but that shouldn't affect me like this, should it?
> 
> I think the CD is protected by Cactus Data Shield. Anyway, if you put it
> in while using Windows, remember to press the Shift key for at least a
> minute to prevent autostart. If you already have made a mistake and got
> the malicious programs to your hard disk, you should carefully examine the
> registry.
> 
> One question, are you using SCSI-emulation on your CD-drive? If the
> answer is yes, you should see
> 
> http://www.xiph.org/archives/paranoia-dev/0112.html
> 
> , i.e. try to alter the ripping command by hacking d->read_audio to
> scsi_read_D8 on scsi_interface.c

I don't believe I am using SCSI emulation. Is that a kernel option? This 
is moving into the realm of rocket science for me.

I'm also not even sure what make the old CD drive is that I am using. I 
doubt it's Plextor - which it would have to be to take advantage of this 
hack, right?

Adam

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