A CD-ROM (stands for Compact Disc Read-only memory) is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback.
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How do I access a cd drive using java?
How can I access the CD Rom drive (in my case, F:) from Java? I don't mind platform specific code. I am using Windows 8. I have the following code but get AccessDenied.
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
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How to read from the CD drive using Java on Windows
I have been trying to write an Audio CD ripper in Java so I can learn how they work. I can't seem to figure out how to actually read the songs off CD drive. I have managed to open the .cda files but there not very useful unless I can access the…
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How to play an audio-cd with Phonon?
I am trying to play an audio CD with phonon under Windows. I use Qt 4.8.0.
I run a code like:
QString filepath = QString("E:\\")
myMusic = Phonon::createPlayer(Phonon::MusicCategory, Phonon::MediaSource(Phonon::Cd,…
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How to run a discontinued videogame on a Windows XP virtual machine?
My friend and I have downloaded some discountinued videogames from Old Games Download - Retrogaming and Abandonware (which I warmly recommend to any CD-ROM aficionado!). We managed to run two of them after downloading them, mounting their .ISO file…
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How to create a batch file to run a videodisc?
I have a CD with the following folders:
CDI
EXT
MPEGAV
PICTURES
SEGMENT
VCD
I want to make a file autorun.bat that when clicked will start the video.
How to do it?
Here are the details of each Folder's contents -
CDI
CDI picture here
EXT
EXT…
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Associate CDRom device with drive letter
I am writing a program that makes disk images of a CD-ROM drive. I need to create a full disk image, not just a volume image, but I need a volume name so I can name the resulting file accordingly.
Basically I need this:
I know that my CD-ROM drive…
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I can't recalculate CRC32 checksum for a CD-ROM sector
I managed extracted a single sector from a cd-rom bin file using a hex editor.
According to cd-rom specifications the sector should have the following format:
* 16 bytes for synchronization and header
* 8 bytes for the sub-header
* 2048 bytes for…
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How can I access the raw bytes of a CD using Java?
Not sure if this is possible, but can I access the raw bytes of a compact disc using Java? If so could you provide a sample of code please? I am using Windows and don't mind platform specific code.
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How to burn data back off a cd-rom
I have a CD‑R that I have burned some data onto. I know that the consumed storage space cannot be recovered, but is there some way to delete the data so it can't be (easily) recovered from the disk? Not just deleting filesystem entries, but…
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How to make a web site on CD searchable
I have a client who has a static site with several HTML indexes of MS Word and .xls files they wish to distribute on CD Rom (i.e., no web server). They would like to make this content searchable (both the HTML and the linked DOC and XLS files). I'm…
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Red Hat 5 cdrom issue
In Red Hat 5 I fail to mount CDROM using: mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
What should I do?
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Grub says "Loading Stage 2"
I'm trying to make a bootable CD-rom. The CD is supposed to use grub to boot. I found a download of stage2_eltorito (this is the file that is used to create a bootable grub disk) and I burned it onto the disk. I rebooted from the disc and it just…
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