Rip and play audio cd at the same time - how is it possible?

[yoda313]

I've actually had this happen once. I use Musicmatch and windows media player as my main players. Musicmatch is set to default when a cd is loaded. BUT I started using wmp to rip to wma for my mp3 player. Both apps started simultaneously and wmp was ripping and musicmatch was playing!!

How is it possible for two seperate apps to access the same area on a cd simultanously??

[lumis]

were you ripping in analog mode?

[yoda313]

Ohh that might have been it. Thanks for the suggestion.

[gooberguy]

..analog mode? whats that?

i do this all the time, pop in a cd in wmp listen to the track while its ripping, all from wmp.

[smearbrick1]

I've actually had this happen once. I use Musicmatch and windows media player as my main players. Musicmatch is set to default when a cd is loaded. BUT I started using wmp to rip to wma for my mp3 player. Both apps started simultaneously and wmp was ripping and musicmatch was playing!!

How is it possible for two seperate apps to access the same area on a cd simultanously??

Computers are amazing and wonderous devices. You executing two separate operations. You are digitally copying the cd and playing it. It's no big thing. I do this all the time. I wouldn't recommend it (it can add artifacts to your compressed audo files), but it can be done. Also, if you were, by some odd instance, using analog somehow (you would have to have the analog cable hooked to your sound card. Most new computers don't have this.) I would imagine your CD was playing via analog connection and ripping via digital, but that's unlikely.

[Faustus]

iTunes rips and starts playing Track1 right after its finished ripping.

[smearbrick1]

iTunes rips and starts playing Track1 right after its finished ripping.

I noticed that. Quite annoying if you ask me. I disabled that feature.

[Faustus]

iTunes rips and starts playing Track1 right after its finished ripping.

I noticed that. Quite annoying if you ask me. I disabled that feature.

Yeah so do I usually but thasts basicly what this thread was about so...

[Heywould3]

winamp and wmp both can play and rip at the same time.. it just puts the audio or the rip in ram.. computers are able to access things rapidly enough so that you dont notice it rip/write then read/play.. were talking nano seconds here..

[RabidDog]

The Read head on CD can move very quickly, the "access speed" (16-20ms) so often quoted in specs, it just buffers up enough for both process's to appear to be running in parallel..