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Re: How to slow down noisy CDROM



On Sun, Oct 28, 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Re: How to slow down noisy CDROM":
> > switches the CD-ROM to 4x speed, and near silence, instead of its default
> > 1000x speed (or whatever ;)) and jet-engine-like noise. Perfect for playing
> > music in the background.
> 
> You're a bit wrong here - when you play ANY Audio CD - the CDROM drive's 
> speed goes to 1x speed which is the needed speed for playing Audio CD's.

Right, but the original question was about mp3 music on CD, not those old-
fashioned audio CDs. Unlike audio CDs, his drive (and most other drives too)
didn't switch to a slow speed when reading mp3 files - even though the
computer was actually reading those files at a very slow speed (10 times
slower than 1x!), which is why an explicit command was needed to slow down the
CD.

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