On 10 August 2011 07:44, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 16:17 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: >> It should be possible to write a FUSE wrapper that would let you do >> the desktop-interface trick as a proper mount. Not that I'm >> volunteering. > > Though, I wonder what you'd do with it then? dd or cat track to the > sound device? mplayer /media/music/track2? (Though it can already do > such things, directly.) > Or oggenc/lame. Basically just moving the ripping to present data trick to a level independent of the desktop, though it has its limits to (harder to incorporate DiscDB/FreeDB information and track renaming at this level). > Another way of showing how audio isn't really a file system: Think > about streaming radio. It's a similar situation, choose a channel, > listen to what comes through. You have a basic selection method, but > after that trying to shoehorn it into the file system model breaks down. > CDs are static information. If I burned a set of wavs to a CDROM we wouldn't say, "It's not a filesystem because it's audio." -- imalone -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines