Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

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D.M. Procida wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

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

I know what a CD-ROM drive at full blast sounds like. However even
the cheapest ones now have quiet or silent modes; they don't all
have to run at top speed all the time.

Then the extra speed to read a dodgy CD rather pointless?

I don't follow why it might be pointless.

Because I'd have it on silent all the time. If a high speed device was
needed to read a faulty CD (that presumably can't be replaced) I'd use my
PC to rip it then copy. But then I've never bought a commercial CD that
won't work in an ordinary CD player anyway.

OK, but I think that's describing a different case - a player with high
capacity storage, rather than one with a RAM buffer.

Daniele