Audio CD

[Emery Schubert]

At 11:36 AM -0500 25/11/02, FMoyer at aol.com wrote:
>Dear Emery:
>
>Did you ever receive any replies to your query about a CD controller? I am
>asking because I want to do the same thing.
>
>Incidentally, I asked pretty much the same thing a few months ago. The only
>reply is below.
>
>But any news you can give me would be most welcome.
>
>Thanks
>Fred

Hi Fred & MC list,

I saw that entry in the archive.  I don't know enough about applescript to
know how to do it.  I am wondering whether it is just the G4 cube that has
a quirky CD-ROM.  I have spent a lot of time on CD externals and plug-ins
on various authoring environments (HC and Director, for example), and in
one case I found that an external didn't work on the cube (tested on 2
machines), but was OK on other G4 tower models.   I'd be really keen on the
applescript option.

Are there any applescript gurus out there who could give some hints on how
to control an audio CD and/or read time code from it?

Emery

>
>
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>Recently, "FMoyer at aol.com"  wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know how to play audio CDs from within Metacard?
>>
>> I am trying to put together a Metacard stack that will run in an "enhanced
>> CD" which is an audio CD that plays in your stereo, but that has software
>> that can run on your Mac or PC. The software portion of my enhanced CD will
>> be some Metacard stacks. One of the things I want my stacks to do is play
>the
>> audio part of the CD, but I can't figure out how to do it. I think I need
>> some xcmds/DLLs to do it. I do have "CD Audio Toolkit 1.0," a Hypercard
>stack
>> with xcmds that Apple put out in 1989. But it crashes my machine, so I think
>> it's just too old.
>
>We've used MC for this, but the new system releases have thrown a wrench
>into the options.  On Windows you use MCI (see the MCIsendString function),
>but I haven't tested this lately on XP.  For MCI reference you can go here:
>
>http://www.tactilemedia.com/info/MCI_Control_Info.html
>
>(Note: this is a 300K document -- give it a second or two to load.)
>
>On MacOS9 and earlier, you need to use XCMDs, but as you've seen, all the
>public versions haven't been updated in a long time so getting something
>reliable might be tricky.  (On one project, we wound up using SuperCard in
>lieu of finding reliable externals.)  On OSX, I have no clue, but
>AppleScript might be a possibility.  Perhaps someone else has some other
>experience/information.
>
>Regards,
>
>Scott Rossi
>Creative Director
>Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
>-----
>E: scott at tactilemedia.com
>W: http://www.tactilemedia.com
>
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>In a message dated 11/18/02 4:59:10 PM, E.Schubert at unsw.edu.au writes:
>
>>Is there an audio CD controller which can be plugged in to metacard stacks?
>>In my hypercard days there were a few things around for controlling audio
>>CD on PowerMacs (that is, playing specific tracks from specific points,
>>reading time code, getting CD ID etc), but these don't seem to work on
>>G3,
>>G4 etc.  Any thoughts/ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Emery
>>
>>>
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