Mounting an iso image of a music disk

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 02:40, Joan Moreau wrote:
> Hi all !
> 
> I made a ISO image of a CD containing music, not to carry my CD player
> all the time ;-)
> 
> So, now, how can I mount this image, so to be able to listen to my CD
> from the harddrive ?
> 
> For now, I got that :
> 
> mangue # mount -o loop CD1.iso /mnt/fakecd/
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> mangue # mount -o loop -t iso9660 CD1.iso /mnt/fakecd/
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
>        or too many mounted file systems
>        (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
>        ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Joan
> 

A music CD is NOT an iso9660 filesystem.  I am not sure what it is, but
you will need to fake the system into doing an access the same as it
does when an audio CD is inserted.

Another option would be to rip the CD to ogg or mp3s to the harddrive
and then play them.  That is very easy to do.