CD won't read contents -- Follow-up -- Solved!
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Mon Jun 27 22:53:09 UTC 2005
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
>
>>> Dear Robert:
>>>
>>> So you mean the DVD uses the mpeg file system while the music CD has no
dvd's have iso9660 or udf filesystems or sometimes both. data cd's have
either iso9660 (orange/yellow book) or udf filesystems. pure audio cd's
have pcm data divided into tracks (per the red book standard, iec 908),
they do not contain filesystems. a cd can contain multiple sessions which
could represent different types of data, but in general they do not.
more info can be had here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(audio_CD_standard)
>>> real file system. And that is why its contents show up in File Manager?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Benjamin
>>>
>>>
>> I am not familiar with the inner workings of DVD file systems.
>> Video DVDs that I have burned have an assortment of visible files
>> when look at them under Windows. I just put a DVD burner on
>> my main Linux box and plan to learn something about video editing
>> on Linux. My Pinnacle video editing software on Windows has
>> great features and a great interface, too bad it crashes all the time.
>>
>> You can put a data file system on a DVD and use it to back up files.
>> When you do this, you can see the files just like with a data CD.
>>
>> Audio CD's have some other type of organization, a bit of poking around
>> on the web will show some good tutorials on this. I have never managed
>> to do anything useful with the files obtained by pulling the files right
>> off the CD with file manager on Windows. I tend to use a ripper to
>> get the songs off my CD's and then put them on my MP3 player. I can
>> then keep the originals in a cool dry place (my safe).
>>
>> Bob Styma
>>
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
> Dear Bob:
>
> Thank you for the good information.
>
> I really don't need to rip the contents and burn them in mp3 format. I was
> just curious about the whole thing. Now it all makes sense. Knowledge is
> always better than ignorance.
>
> Benjamin
>
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