darn..I'm gonna have to buy one of those cd players they sell at the drug store for $12. My xbox360 is getting used at my friends house. That would be cool if it worked on that since you can download the tracks to the hard drive. Anyone try that yet?
It's just your OS getting in the way. There's nothing out of spec with the TG/PCE CD format itself. It's specifically Yellow book standard to the tee. It's just that windows and most OS are expecting strictly an audio CD or an ISO9660 setup (first track is data, all following tracks, if present, are CDDA (red book audio) tracks). A lot of music CDs that come with videos/PC content, are ISO9660 format. In contrast, a lot of TG/PCE games use CDDA,DATA,CDDA, etc layout (not to mention the data track isn't even ISO9660 file system, except those PCE Game Express CD games). The music player programs are going through the OS layer directly to play these discs, so they're no help (they'd need their own direct access to the disc and know what to specifically look for. There's just no need for that). Just rip the CDDA audio tracks to your hard drive. Nero can do this (save tracks), TurboRip can do this, lots of other CDreader/writer apps can do this (M$ PC based apps, good luck on Mac). As for your DVD players, that's anyone's guess. It all depends on what embedded code is going to do (manufacture, revision, designer, etc). If it goes into audio mode, it should play the disc fine and any data tracks should immediately be silenced (only older audio CD players won't look at the track ID to see what mode it's in, and just interpret the sector as CDDA thus hearing the data as audio).
Topic: games play music tracks on a cd player, but not on PC? (Read 447 times)
