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From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
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Subject: Re: What's happened to CDIOCREADAUDIO & friends?
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 08:17:16AM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> The right way of doing audio graps has been to set the wanted blocksize
> with CDRIOCSETBLOCKSIZE (not needed if all tracks on the CD is of
> the same size), then just read from the device. Ioctl's was newer meant
> to be used to read/write data, its also faster to use the R/W path...

I'm sure users will see it as a functional regression, though. It might
not be the 'right' API for it, I agree, but it would save our user base
screaming if the functionality were preserved (or at least emulated).

BMS