Hi,

I just discovered that some of my cds contents appear completely different on some OSS, especially with Linux distros and Windows.

By example, on my Suse distro I can see FLAC and Ogg Vorbis folders which have already the ripped files directly on the cd...



Don't know if somebody have already noticed that but how can we see or access at these things on Windows ? coz I see only cda links on this system...

You would need a special CDDA driver in windows, that rips and encodes as you copy the tracks from the CD to your hard disk. I never heard of one.

I remember something similiar for windows, an alternate cdfs dll or something like that. You could see the mp3 files directly inside the CD, but it was just a size aproximation ( duration * fixed kbps rate ), not real files. When you actually copied those files to HDD it started ripping & compressing the audio track to mp3.

I suppose the KDE people did something similar with Konqueror but using Vorbis & FLAC instead, somehow "integrating" the cd-ripping process in the explorer.

Seems pretty cool.

edit: typos

Yeah, the ripper is built into konqueror. It's pretty cool. If you have the LAME libraries installed, you can see an mp3 directory as well. You can change the settngs in the Control Panel.