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> How many machines have you all used with a CD Player that had "Save Track As..." built in as a standard option. The CD Player in BeOS could save all or parts
by sillywalk 2y ago
> How many machines have you all used with a CD Player that had "Save Track As..." built in as a standard option.
The CD Player in BeOS could save all or parts of CD Tracks. Also, BeOS would show CDs as a directory of numbered AIFF or WAV files, I can't remember which. There was also some optional software that wold look up the CD info up with CDDB and would show the track names in the Tracker (the BeOS file manager)
- donatj 2y ago> BeOS would show CDs as a directory of numbered AIFF or WAV files MacOS modern and classic both do this as well
- ddingus 2y agoNow I should have known that. Fact is amazingly, I have never played an audio CD on a Mac. Ever. So, that leaves Windows basically as the odd one out. Love this place for threads line this. Nice catch to you as well, and I am going to go play a CD on My M1 via USB optical drive next week.
- sillywalk 2y ago> I have never played an audio CD on a Mac. Ever. I'm not 100% certain I never played an audio CD on a Mac. The only Mac I've owned with an optical drive at all was a PowerBook G4. It's been 20 years, but I assume any audio CDs that went into it were to be meant to be ripped into iTunes and not played as audio CDs.
- ddingus 2y agoI commented a one up above. SGI IRIX computers connected to SGI DAT drives will gladly save audio off those as well. Lol, just had to. :]
- ddingus 2y agoYes! Be had it. A friend and I setup a Be station in the late 90's and really liked it. Nice catch.
- ddingus 2y agoOk, how about the same with a DAT drive? If you connect an SGI DAT drive to an IRIX machine, you can save the tracks in the same way. And they get saved in the faster, native DAT sample rate. 48Khz, I believe.