Hi,

In message , Chris Morriss
writes

But there'd be nothing to stop a CD drive spinning at a constant rate,
(provided it was high enough), and FIFO buffering the audio. There's
nothing to stop a maker reading the audio in high speed 'packet' bursts.

With the price of RAM as it is, that might just happen - pop the CD in,
and while it's playing the first few minutes it could buffer all the
rest to memory. It's like a glorified version of what happens anyway,
just with a much bigger buffer.

Maybe that's not such a good idea, though. It might start a whole new
high-end argument about what type of RAM sounds best :-)

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Regards,
Glenn Booth