• @Scoopta@programming.dev
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    12 months ago

    They were probably a variant of the unofficial format known as an MP3 CD. Basically CDs which contain computer audio files. CD Audio discs as specified by the redbook standard do not even have a filesystem and don’t contain files.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      2 months ago

      I am pretty sure they experienced some KDE Ingenuity.

      Example:

      You can see they can’t be real files due to their total size:

      Unfortunately, at least on Arch it seems a bit broken. The CD keeps spinning at low speed with audible random searches and the file transfer speed is abysmal. Copying out one 3.5MiB MP3 took it almost 2 minutes.

      • @Scoopta@programming.dev
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        12 months ago

        Huh that’s actually pretty nifty, I personally use nemo but tbh I haven’t inserted a CD I don’t think ever to look at what it does