Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihdev.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihdev!pdg From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: CD players and PC's Message-ID: <321@ihdev.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 18:58:35 EDT Article-I.D.: ihdev.321 Posted: Mon Sep 23 18:58:35 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 06:49:07 EDT References: <125@ur-tut.UUCP> Reply-To: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (55224-P. D. Guthrie) Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 Summary: In article <125@ur-tut.UUCP> tuba@ur-tut.UUCP (Jon Krueger) writes: >Anyone out there tried tapping into their CD player >and tee-ing the digital encoding into their home PC? >Wonder if there's any way to get CD internals to generate >something RS-232-like enough to be read into the COMM >port that most PC's provide. Might be fun. If the PC >can keep up with the bits at playing speeds, you might >be able to graphically display the sound. > >Alternatively, has anyone tried buying a CD player and taking >it into the computer lab? A certain company that I once visited (I am not sure if this is public info yet so I won't say who) has a system that reads the catalog from the disk and into an Apple 2e which is then used for controlling >= 1 CD for (e.g.) a disk jockey. I don't remember if the actual name of the song is recorded digitally on the disk, but the system would let you choose a song, it would tell you what disk to insert, and make sure it was the right one before playing the song. Pretty neat!! Paul Guthrie