[X4U] importing audio CD as AIFF

[DZ-Jay]

On Apr 30, 2005, at 11:19, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

>> Wrong.  Its the CD reader hardware that have direct access to the 
>> disc.  The applications get their information from it.  Commercial 
>> hardware and software, is commonly crippled to prevent (or make 
>> difficult) bit-by-bit copying.
>
> Man, you won't give up, will you...
>
> Yes, it's the hardware that reads the bits; but it's the operating 
> system that copies those bits (in the case of a copy); there's no 
> passing through a sound card.

Ok, I'm sorry, I was wrong to say the sound card, although it has been 
a mediator on old software (I do remember it being the only method to 
extract audio files some years agom, from Windows, when I didn't have 
access to more sophisticated software).  But like I said before, the 
operating system only copies what is fed to it by its source (be it the 
sound card or the drive's firmware).  Most applications (or OS APIs) do 
not bother to call direct raw-read methods.

But, ok, I'll give up.  I'm certainly not an expert on this matter, so 
I'll shut up. :)

	dZ.