Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
> I also brought a couple of normal CDs into the car to play.
>
> The normal CDs show "No title".
>
> My ripped files show author, album, and title.
>
> CDs are a digital medium, yet you cannot get simple track information
> from them.
You can if the drive supports CD-TEXT and the disc has CD-TEXT info,
which they rarely, if ever, do. It's just one of many standards that got
sidelined, like HDCD.
Good grief! I just checked the Wiki-P for HDCD, and now the IP
apparently belongs to ... Microsoft!
Is /nothing/ safe from these harvesters?
There's all manner of optical disc standards that never took off, and/or
were never implemented properly. IMHO packet writing is another one -
something which, again, Microsoft is trying to "re-brand" as it's own
invention.
> Dumb. Totally dumb.
To the corporations, innovation only matters if it makes money. Indeed,
I wouldn't be surprised if the Webster definition for "innovation" had
been changed to "profit", certainly that seems to be Microsoft's opinion.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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