Once upon a time on usenet Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
,
D.M. Procida wrote:
This CD player (a Meridian, and rather expensive) apparently uses a
cheap CD-ROM drive to get the data off the disk, and can use the
drive's extra speed to read ahead and buffer it (allowing it for
example to have multiple goes at reading problematic areas of the
disk) in pretty much the way I suggested would be possible.

I've got a CD 'jukebox' here. Either plays CDs direct, or rips them
to an internal hard drive. And thrust me, you don't want a CD-Rom
drive spinning at speed in the same room as a CD you're listening to.

Thrust you? No thanks. ;-)
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy
little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)