CompuServe Messages

The decoder chip and buffers could be either place. Now that I think about it, it may make more sense to have it as a part of the drive. This would allow both Redbook and Compressed audio to come out the same audio level jacks. The only advantage to having on a controller card in the PC would be that it MIGHT give the user the capability to playback/merge sound maps that had been stored im memory or on hard disk. i.e. add a variable voice track over a musical score. As far as the second part, I'm not quite sure what you are getting at. One problem with it is that if you store the audio in data tracks, even as raw mode sectors, you would get a glitch for each of the 75 sectors per second. All data tracks have some header information while Redbook is stored as a continious data stream.