Get CD audio track frame?

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:09 pm

Thanks alot for your help traumatic.
I'll download that package and install the aspi from that one and I'll have a look at the documentation

Right now, I'm backing up both my harddrives as I am going to reorganize my machine, create partitions for Win98, WinXP and Linux

dell_jockey · Post by **dell_jockey** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:10 pm

GeoTrail wrote:Right now, I'm backing up both my harddrives as I am going to reorganize my machine, create partitions for Win98, WinXP and Linux

Ever thought of using virtual machines for that? With VM's, you can have them all in parallel... Great for testing portability!

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:28 pm

Yeah I know, I am a beta tester for vmware but I have thought about doing this for a long time now and since my XP is acting up I think this is a good time to finally get it done.

After it's done, I'm gonna use Linux for my everyday usage, and the Windows installations for testing only. Only thing now is to decide which distro to install. Now I'm gonna test the latest Xandros 3.01 and after that I'm testing ubuntu 5.04. And offcourse, the most important thing about the distro is that it must work well with PB installed 'cause I really wanna try the new IDE

traumatic · Post by **traumatic** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:42 pm

Yes, I'm also a big fan of VMware!

Back to topic... Because I found this quite interesting I took some time to
do some further investigation (aka coding).

Could you please run this example on your pc and tell me if it works?
http://files.connection-refused.org/aspicheck.zip

This is what it looks like for me (obviously, ASPI is correctly installed here

) :

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:53 pm

Hmmm that's strange. Here's what I get with your app

and here's the result from the adaptec checker

traumatic · Post by **traumatic** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:57 pm

I don't think you can rely on the information the "adaptec installation verification"
gives you because it only checks for the presence of wnaspi32.dll and aspi32.sys.
If any file is missing it just says "ASPI component(s) missing" and that's it.

Anyway, I tried some DLLs just to check the differences.

Nero-ASPI, version 2.0.1 (59) - works.
Adaptec 4.6 (1021) - works.
Adaptec 4.71 - works.

I also tried an older 4.57 (1008) - that one didn't work.

Can anyone else say something to this?
Rings? I know you tried it as well...

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:27 pm

Ok, so what do you think is causing my problems? Driver version or incorrect registered driver?

traumatic · Post by **traumatic** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:43 pm

If I would only know...

Maybe it only works on my system, who knows?

...let's hope some others will respond...

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:01 am

Works fine here with Nero-ASPI, version 2.0.1 (59)

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:14 am

It's probably because my XP machine is all messed up. I've hade lot of problems with other things to the past week.

I'll try that app again after I have re-installed Windows.

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:25 am

@GeoTrail - I've put together some code that reads track into from the .cda file. Will that help you at all

I'm also working on getting track offsets but that's progressing rather slowly right now.

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:27 pm

Well, I actually do need the frame for the cd in order to calculate the id for the CD. But being able to read the tracks would also be usefull in this project. Is it alot of coding?

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 2:29 pm

First let me say I don't know much about audio files and ripping (yet)

There is CD serial number also located within the .cda file. Is that what you need? This is the same serial number you see when doing a dir on the cd.

The code I put together is < 100 lines and is quite straight forward. Let me clean it up a little and I'll post it here later today.

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:33 pm

No it's not the serial I need. But as on a movie there are frames, so there is on an audio cd. So by getting the number of frames and the offset of frames from the beginning, you can also get the lead-out info from a CD and thereby calculate the cd id which should be unique when you do the calculation together with the total ammount of audio tracks. You can get more info about that on the freedb.org website.

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:49 pm

Ok, I thnk I understand now.

If I incorporate my code into your original code posted on page 1, then you should have the info you need. Yes ... No

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Procedure read_cdtoc_from_drive(void) 
  ; ********* Insert my code here **********
  ; Do whatever is appropriate To Read the toc of the CD 
  ; into the cdtoc[] Structure array. 
  ; ***********************************
  ProcedureReturn tot_trks 
EndProcedure