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From: tuba@ur-tut.UUCP (Jon Krueger)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: CD players and PC's
Message-ID: <125@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 20:59:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 20:59:17 1985
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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?

I understand that the CD player clones that move bits from
optical disks into your Microvax (or whatever) use some
of the bits for ECC, so they can't play standard audio CD
disks.  Wonder if that's true, and if so, overrideable somehow.
-- 

					-- Jon Krueger
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