I have had a few (I think only 2) CDs that actually included a few different formats in the filesystem, otoh ogg, flac, MP3, and wav. That was a nice surprise when I was preparing to rip them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Konqueror, IIRC, will show you "virtual" MP3s & FLACs, complete with file sizes and all, when you put in an audio CD. You can copy these files to your hard disk. They are created on the fly, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I just opened it as storage in dolphin, and all the files were there neatly organised.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yup, that's done by AudioCD Kioslave.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Oh I had no idea, that's a very nice feature then!

[–] Scoopta 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They were probably a variant of the unofficial format known as an MP3 CD. Basically CDs which contain computer audio files. CD Audio discs as specified by the redbook standard do not even have a filesystem and don't contain files.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I am pretty sure they experienced some KDE Ingenuity.

Example:

You can see they can't be real files due to their total size:

Unfortunately, at least on Arch it seems a bit broken. The CD keeps spinning at low speed with audible random searches and the file transfer speed is abysmal. Copying out one 3.5MiB MP3 took it almost 2 minutes.

[–] Scoopta 1 points 4 days ago

Huh that's actually pretty nifty, I personally use nemo but tbh I haven't inserted a CD I don't think ever to look at what it does