Enough complaining about computer problems – back to the news! According to a recent post on the Haiku website, Axel Dörfler made some progress towards towards a CDDA FS (CD audio filesystem) driver. Marco Nelissen,of SoundPlay fame wrote the first implementation of CDDA-FS back in the R4.5 days, his work was later included in R5. In a nutshell, CDDA-FS lets you access the tracks on a mounted audio CD as if they standard WAV files – meaning that audio can be extracted from a CD by simply dragging-and-dropping, without the need for any separate “ripping” software.
The Haiku implementation also comes with a small app called “cdda_text” for retrieving album and track name information. A screenshot of the driver in action has been posted as well. Correction: a reader wrote in to point out that the cdda_text app reads relevant info directly from the CD itself (if present), not from a remote CDDB database as I had written. Thanks to Oscar Lesta for the note.
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