[abcde] Re: Cut order variance?

[Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 09:54:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> I've run onot a serries of CD's today (Primarily BillBoard year
> collections) that the record in FreeDB does not agree with the tracj order
> as printed on the box/CD. Through paniful trial and error, I have found out
> that the record in FreeDB is correct! However when I play the audio CD in
> my streo it indeed plays in the jacket order!
> 
> Can anyone save my sanity by giving me a clue what's going on here?

Sounds like the CD's TOC (table of contents) track offsets aren't in order.

I've never actually seen such a CD, but I'd imagine if you looked at the
results using 'cd-discid /dev/cdrom', the offsets (all the numbers except
the first two and the last) would not be sequential.

Your stereo reads the continuous spiral of data from the inside of the disc
to the outside, but your computer reads the track offset for track 1, track
2, etc etc and starts reading from there.
-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
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