Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!CC.UMontreal.CA!ceres!boyerf From: boyerf@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Boyer Francois-Raymon) Subject: Re: MSCDEX ReadLong help? Message-ID: Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews) Organization: Universite de Montreal X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <315gpd$bhg@hippo.shef.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 16:52:20 GMT Lines: 33 Xref: cdrom.com alt.msdos.programmer:2538 alt.cd-rom:7592 Colin McLaughlan (colinm@ea.com) wrote: : In article <315gpd$bhg@hippo.shef.ac.uk>, ci1bfp@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (B : Pickford) wrote: : > Hi Any & All, : > : > I am in the process of writing a dos based audio cd player, : > I have got the player working but am now trying to add : > audio recording. : > : > That is I want to use ReadLong tto read data directly from : > a CD to hard disk but keep getting error bit 8 set in the : > returned status. : > : > Can you help or do you have example code of reading a CD : > using ReadLong? : > : > Many Thanks, : > TTFN Fraz : > : > : You can't is the simple answer. : MSCDEX locks you out from reading the audio data as data. : You can only use the "play" functions. : The only way you might be able to ( I haven't tried this myself) is : to go to the hardware direct say through the SCSI commands. You can't? I've done it and it works. But it doesn't work on all CD drives and not all versions of MSCDEX can do raw mode. My CD always report an error when reading digital audio, but my program works well on my friend's drive.