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Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman

Reputation: 73195

How to read CD audio data in Windows?

What is the Microsoft-approved way to extract the raw audio data from an audio CD? I'm hoping to do this with C++ or C.

It's ironic because in XP/Vista/7, there is the IMAPI (Image Mastering API) for writing data, but not for reading it.

Is there a set of API functions for this? Or do I need to send SCSI commands?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3737

Answers (3)

Anders
Anders

Reputation: 101646

The windows audio guy, Larry Osterman, did a whole series about CD Audio playback on his blog (DAE,MCI)

Upvotes: 0

Romain Hippeau
Romain Hippeau

Reputation: 24375

Here are a couple of code samples...

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/audio-video/SimpleAudioCD.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/csharpripper.aspx

Upvotes: 3

R Ubben
R Ubben

Reputation: 2204

I would use open source for this. Have you looked at the CDEX project? The CDRip.dll in this project may be useful.

Upvotes: 0

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