Audio CD Problem: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

Scot Gardner

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Mar 15, 2002, 10:18:13 AM3/15/02

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I have just had an interesting experience with a recently released
"enhanced" audio CD/CD-ROM called _O Brother, Where Art Thou?_ which I just
put into the computer. The audio tracks are not visible to Explorer, but
they are visible and playable with Easy CD Creator 4. However, the CD plays
normally on a standard CD player and also in my DVD player.

Easy CD Creator 4 is also able to convert the audio tracks into WAV files
and Razor Lame can then convert the WAV files to MP3s.

The auto-run feature on the CD creates two splash screens: the first is an
index containing three features -- one of which is a special player for the
audio tracks. However, the audio tracks are only playable by using the
interface on the CD.

Real Player and Windows Media Player cannot find the audio files, but they
are playable with the Creative CD player and the Easy CD Creator player:

If there are other audio CDs which behave this way, I have not seen them.

CQ

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Mar 15, 2002, 1:00:35 PM3/15/02

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In article <Vgok8.17483$P4.15...@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,
Scot Gardner says...

> The audio tracks are not visible to Explorer, but
> they are visible and playable with Easy CD Creator 4.
>

They are visible and rippable with CDex too. It downloaded the track
info from CDDB as well.

No telling what kind of crap is on that CD. Explorer only shows it as
having 19MB used on the disk....yeah, right.
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C.Q.
http://mp3.cappycue.com/

Pete Bready

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Mar 15, 2002, 1:25:08 PM3/15/02

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In message <MPG.16fc00cc3...@News.CIS.DFN.DE>
CQ <cappyNO...@yahoo.com> wrote:

I've seen this 'misreporting' with a data CD-R I created just the other day -
what Explorer seems to display is the data referring to the last session
burnt onto the CD, rather than the total of all sessions. What do you expect
from M$ anyway...

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Pete Bready
pbr...@ntlworld.com

CQ

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Mar 15, 2002, 2:16:35 PM3/15/02

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In article <ad0db9174...@ntlworld.com>, Pete Bready says...

> I've seen this 'misreporting' with a data CD-R I created just the other day -
> what Explorer seems to display is the data referring to the last session
> burnt onto the CD, rather than the total of all sessions. What do you expect
> from M$ anyway...
>

While I agree with you completely about what we can expect from
Microsoft (my wife can't be the only non-computer user who chuckles
every time she hears that name, btw)...

I was referring to the factory copy of "O Brother Where Art
Thou?"....that's the one Explorer is saying has 19MB on it, yet it has
all the tracks in two different formats and a player and a screensaver on
there.

Good music though ;-)

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C.Q.
http://mp3.cappycue.com/

Scot Gardner

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Mar 16, 2002, 12:20:41 PM3/16/02

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"CQ" <cappyNO...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Not all of the tracks on this 60 minute CD are my favorites (a little "Po
Lazuras" goes a long way), but most of them are great. I rented the DVD the
day it was released and then went to Costco the next day and bought the DVD
and movie soundtrack.

I have no regrets.

Scot Gardner

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Mar 16, 2002, 12:20:44 PM3/16/02

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"Pete Bready" <pbr...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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That's probably what's going on here. Whenever I make an MP3 data CD, I try
to fill up the disk as much as possible in a single-session burn. That way,
my MP3 player doesn't have to waste time looking all over the disk to find
out where all of the MP3 tracks are located.