Re: which pci sound card does not have dropouts under load

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 3 Mar 1999 22:12:42 +0000 (GMT)

> What about CD audio or MIDI? Do you have to rip the CD in realtime to
> play it? [Of course you could just rip it anyways and convert to mp3].

You rip it ahead of real time and queue it in memory, the controller clocks it
out for you. And yes its done ripping - Digital all the way

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