I just ripped a track from CD by dragging it into Live!

forge · Post by **forge** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:32 pm

I didnt know you could do this - is this new in Leopard? - I was on someone else's iMac - not doing it here in windows

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:58 pm

This is new in OS... 8? I think? That CDs show up as a folder full of AIFF files?

BeOS can do it with an extension. I'm sure Linux can do it too.

How does Windows handle it?

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:00 pm

Here's an Amiga extension that does the same thing.

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:02 pm

Audio FS 2 is a filing system for audio CDs. It enables you to open filer windows for audio CDs, with each track on the CD being represented by a separate file. These can be dragged to your hard drive for later playback (Non copyright material only :) or dragged to a sample playback utility.

http://xlcus.com/software/acorn/ - for RISCOS..

OvertoneZero · Post by **OvertoneZero** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:03 pm

Not new, but pretty cool huh

forge · Post by **forge** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:07 pm

I really want an iMac

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:09 pm

There must be a way to make Windows do this.

forge · Post by **forge** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:17 pm

I betcha there isnt - or if there is it's crap

frahnque · Post by **frahnque** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:58 pm

noisetonepause wrote:Here's an Amiga extension that does the same thing.

Amiga rocks, Atari sucks! (oooh, I suddenly remembered the OLD religion wars. Nowadays it's all Mac vs. PC)

maze23a · Post by **maze23a** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 2:57 pm

I just did it and it worked,
this is realyy cool!

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:30 pm

noisetonepause wrote:There must be a way to make Windows do this.

for sure, I remember having this back in the day, it's an "aspi layer" you just drag to your systems folder, and then cds open like regular folders, with wave files inside.

o0o · Post by **o0o** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:25 am

so how do you do this in xp?

Dalibor Loncar · Post by **Dalibor Loncar** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:34 am

in good old Win9x days there was an alternative driver called cdfs.vxd to show CD-DAs as wav files in the file system; this driver was unofficial and never released in an official win 9x version by MS (afaik it came with a win 9x beta ... ).

in xp you don´t have such a driver anymore.

for grabbing i use EAC; it´s free and does its job well:

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

jonny72 · Post by **jonny72** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:18 am

Probably the biggest problem I had when I switched to a Mac was getting used to things working the way you'd expect them to. I was so used to doing things in convoluted ways in Windows that I carried on doing them the same way on my Mac.

I've found plenty of things like this, normally by chance or by watching someone who doesn't know what they're doing - they often just do the most logical thing and it works.

o0o · Post by **o0o** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:24 am

jonny72 wrote:Probably the biggest problem I had when I switched to a Mac was getting used to things working the way you'd expect them to. I was so used to doing things in convoluted ways in Windows that I carried on doing them the same way on my Mac.

I've found plenty of things like this, normally by chance or by watching someone who doesn't know what they're doing - they often just do the most logical thing and it works.

it would be nice if there was a list of such things compiled somewhere.