It would be usefull if one could select the extraction speed for the drive he uses for cd audio. That way, the noise could be reduced and the drive would not have to work at a high speed all the time.

Hi,

Hmm, this is strange, my Lite-On LTD-166S drive extracts Audio CDs at low speed with Foobar2000 v0.51a. The noise is very low.

Why does your drive extract Audio at high speeds with FB2K??

However, if I press the play button located in the front of the drive, the spinning noise is even lower. It's extremely silent.

I don't care that there's a digital-analog-digital conversion, because the low spinning noise is really worth it for me.

So, please, Peter, could you add an option to PLAY audio CDs instead of EXTRACTING them??

EDIT: I forgot to say that people using the S/PDIF connector to connect their drive to the soundcard won't suffer the digital-analog-digital conversion.

Thanks a lot.
Regards.

It seems that the maximum ripping speed is being used for both my drives (9x for cd-rom and 15x for cd-r). Cdreader for *cough* winamp *cough* had a speed select box, so I used 4x and everything was fine. I don't really mind the noise, just that I believe that the drives must suffer by the intense usage.

The ripper is based on AKRip, which appears to have room for improvement.

"Playing" audio CDs will never be integrated, because DSPs et cetera cannot be used on them. Digital extraction is the only method that will ever likely be available, simply because FB2K's architecture is focussed on digital playback.

A selectable extraction speed is far more likely to be implemented.

Plus, the player has no mechanism for plug-ins that don't generate audio, yet. There's always producing a blank signal while playing, which seems kind of dumb.