[X4U] importing audio CD as AIFF

[DZ-Jay]

On Apr 30, 2005, at 10:59, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

> The whole point of digital music is that it is digital, and never gets 
> converted to analog (except when you listen to it).

That's the point for Audio Playback, not for burning Audio CDs.

>  That's why digital copies are the same quality as the originals.

Only digital copies of a file already stored on the hard disk, and data 
from audio cds extracted raw.

> It's not applications that access the raw data on disc; it's the file 
> system and operating system.

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.

	dZ.