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[-] fouloleron@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Ignorant of the subject matter, but I ripped a bunch of CDs to FLAC some time ago. Would that not work for this purpose?

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Audio CDs contain 44.1kHz 16-bit PCM. If you got FLACs out you transcoded them, and transcoding from lossy to lossless is generally undesirable

EDIT: I stand corrected, I forgot that PCM is not a codec.

[-] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

I have had a few (I think only 2) CDs that actually included a few different formats in the filesystem, otoh ogg, flac, MP3, and wav. That was a nice surprise when I was preparing to rip them.

[-] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Konqueror, IIRC, will show you "virtual" MP3s & FLACs, complete with file sizes and all, when you put in an audio CD. You can copy these files to your hard disk. They are created on the fly, though.

[-] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

I just opened it as storage in dolphin, and all the files were there neatly organised.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

Yup, that's done by AudioCD Kioslave.

[-] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Oh I had no idea, that's a very nice feature then!

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

They were probably a variant of the unofficial format known as an MP3 CD. Basically CDs which contain computer audio files. CD Audio discs as specified by the redbook standard do not even have a filesystem and don't contain files.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I am pretty sure they experienced some KDE Ingenuity.

Example:

You can see they can't be real files due to their total size:

Unfortunately, at least on Arch it seems a bit broken. The CD keeps spinning at low speed with audible random searches and the file transfer speed is abysmal. Copying out one 3.5MiB MP3 took it almost 2 minutes.