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From: oakpeterb@aol.com (OakPeterB)
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Subject: Re: CDI and CD-ROM
Date: 3 Aug 1994 19:55:03 -0400
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 ffj@aol.com (FFJ) writes:

> Can you play CDI disc's in a CD-ROM drive?  

In most of today's drives you can read CDI disks. I do not know what you
mean by play. If it's a CDI game then you need a Philips CDI player, if
it's a movie then you can watch it.

> Also I have an audio disc which says it contains images and lyrics to
songs 
> encoded on the CD it's self.  I cannot access these images or lyrics
with a 
> CD-ROM drive. In the cover of the disc it say you must use some kind of
> converter on the audio CD player to view the info.  What is this all
about?  Is 
> there some kind of computer program that will allow me to play this
info?

What you have is CD+G and you need to have a CD-ROM drive that supports
it. The only CD+G disk that we have tried here is Fleetwood Mac and there
are a number of drives that can show the pictures on a computer. However,
IMO CD+G is not going anywhere so I wouldn't base the purchase of a drive
on this capability.

Good luck,

Peter