[vorbis] Here we go again...

[Larry Fenske]

I believe that usually when a PC CD-ROM drive plays an audio CD,
the CD-ROM drive outputs an analog signal directly to the soundcard.
Therefore, one cannot losslessly "capture the output stream of, say a
CDPlayer app and redirect it to a .wav file".  One could re-digitize
the audio, but that's not what I want.  I would accept it if I had to,
but it's not ideal.

Larry Fenske

> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:
> 
> >The technology distorts CD recordings with a series of audible pops and 
> >clicks when the music is copied onto a PC. 
> 
> There's no way it's platform independent, right? Besides, couldn't we just 
> hack something that captured the output stream of, say a CDPlayer app and 
> redirect it to a .wav file? Or are they saying from now on that we can't play 
> legitimately purchased CDs on our PCs?
> 
> Betcha this goes the way of DivX (the DVD scheme, not the OS video 
> compression scheme).
> 
> - Chris

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