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> Computers aren't radio or CDs, there's no way to actually consume media on them without copies being made at some point.

What caf said. There are analog radios, but there are no analog CDs; there is no way to consume anything on a CD without making a copy of it.



Wrong.

Linux: ioctl CDROMPLAYMSF

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/userspace-api/ioctl/c...

OpenBSD has cdio(1), IDK about the API.

After running these IDE commands, the CD contents would be streamed thru the analog output.


The CD rom drive having copied sectors, error corrected each sector and then DACed it to the analog outputs.

It's not like a record or a cassete tape or a laserdisc (I think), where you can build a system with amplifiers only and no copies or sampling.


Eh, not always. Older CD drives didn't have the many correction/anti-skip tecniques you had in example in modern discmans.




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