• Ghoelian
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    32 days ago

    I have had a few (I think only 2) CDs that actually included a few different formats in the filesystem, otoh ogg, flac, MP3, and wav. That was a nice surprise when I was preparing to rip them.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 days ago

      Konqueror, IIRC, will show you “virtual” MP3s & FLACs, complete with file sizes and all, when you put in an audio CD. You can copy these files to your hard disk. They are created on the fly, though.

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      11 day ago

      They were probably a variant of the unofficial format known as an MP3 CD. Basically CDs which contain computer audio files. CD Audio discs as specified by the redbook standard do not even have a filesystem and don’t contain files.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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        I am pretty sure they experienced some KDE Ingenuity.

        Example:

        You can see they can’t be real files due to their total size:

        Unfortunately, at least on Arch it seems a bit broken. The CD keeps spinning at low speed with audible random searches and the file transfer speed is abysmal. Copying out one 3.5MiB MP3 took it almost 2 minutes.

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          11 day ago

          Huh that’s actually pretty nifty, I personally use nemo but tbh I haven’t inserted a CD I don’t think ever to look at what it does