Audio-CD not mountable

[Nils Kassube]

Joep L. Blom wrote:
> I clicked on it and suddenly it came to live and it read all the
> tracks and stored them in .ogg format which I could copy to a normal
> directory. I don't know if I can write .ogg files to an audio disk
> but I think it's not so difficult to convert it to .wav with e.g.
> audacity

As Gene explained already, an audio CD doesn't have a file system. There 
are only raw audio data on it. If you rip the individual tracks they are 
usually stored in wav format which is more or less the raw audio data 
with a header describing how to read those raw data. If you convert it 
to ogg format, you compress the data by eliminating parts of the sound 
which your ear may not notice. Depending on the algorithm used to 
eliminate the extra data, there are some artifacts created though. If 
you now make a raw audio stream from your ogg files, the quality is 
reduced compared to your original CD. Therefore it would be better to 
rip the CD to wav files, if you want to burn them as an audio CD later. 
The difference is that the ogg (and mp3) format is lossy while wav is 
lossless. I suppose you can edit the preferences of any program which 
can rip CDs to use wav format instead of ogg. Another option would be to 
use your CD burning software to copy the audio CD directly.

> But who can explain in what Banshee differs from the other programs?

It looks like Banshee can read audio CDs while the other programs you 
used can only play audio files.


Nils