cdrom

Linux::CDROM cookbook contains common recipes featuring your CDROM drive as its main ingredient.

Theres a gazillion ways of reading the disc inside your CDROM drive. The most high-level ones would be mounting your CD and using it as a normal directory or - in case of an Audio-CD - using a player to play tracks. This is boring stuff and you dont need Linux::CDROM for any of that.

But when you want to write your own CD-player or -grabber, this is more like it. You can even get at a lower level than that.

PLAYING AUDIO

Linux::CDROM offers a couple of methods dealing with that. For starting playback, you will use either Linux::CDROM::play_ti (ti == track index) or Linux::CDROM::play_msf (msf == minute, second and frame).

All playing operations happen non-blockingly. That means, you start playback and your program does not wait till the playback is done. Instead if will proceed with the next line.

Eject Cdrom, forcefully ejects your cdrom/cdwriter device.

It is especially useful when you are in a hurry, and dont know which application is using the cdrom device. Instead of pressing the Reset Button use Eject Cdrom

Eject Cdrom, will try the "normal" eject first, if it fails then it will forcefully eject the cdrom.

Make sure that you have your cdrom device linked to /dev/cdrom, check with:

ls -l /dev/cdrom

if you get
/dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdd (or something) then it is ok

else create a symbolic link:
ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom (or)
ln -sf /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom

Installation:

just save the eject.desktop file on your desktop or add to your menu. just click it to eject your cdrom (normally else forcefully)!

You can master the usage of the CD-ROM by CDRom Watchdog to make the CD-ROM your loyal subordinate, all the disks or CD-ROM unaccepted by you are forbidden to use. You can prevent such things from happening by CDRom Watchdog that your children play the games secretly or anyone use your CD-ROM without your approval. If you have this series of software, anyone could not use your CD-ROM unauthorized. It is very easy to operate it ,so do not hesitate to download a series for a trial.

Cdrom List Creator is an application designed to be a CD indexer, that can save and print directories and files names.

The program provides an interface to search, view and organize your CD indexes.

Auto-eject-cdrom is a very small C application that handles CD-ROM events in Linux. If new media is inserted in a CD-ROM drive, it is automatically mounted based on a matching entry in /etc/fstab.

If a CD-ROM is mounted and the eject button is pressed, the filesystem is umounted and ejected.

This allows for the same basic functionality Windows allows with the CD-ROM eject button.

Stellar Phoenix - CD Data Recovery Software is a powerful, easy to use cd file recovery tool which provides data recovery from damaged or defective CDROM, CD-R, CD-RW. Provides recovery of data and file, lost due to unreadable, scratched, corrupt or defective CD media. Phoenix CD Data Recovery Software supports ISO9660 and Joliet file system. Phoenix CD file Recovery software, having an easy and intuitive GUI interface rescues your data and writes it to a different location. Key Features: File recovery from damaged CDROM, CD-R and CD-RW. Data recovery when TOC (Table of Contents) is bad or damaged. Fully automatic CD Data Recovery software provides data recovery even after primary volume descriptor and secondary volume descriptor are corrupt or physically damaged. Data recovery when data can not be accessed and disk indicates that it is full. Provides file recovery when disk has physical damages : scratch, bubbles, cracks and warping. Provides CD data recovery when computer freezes when trying to read the disk. Provides CD file recovery when disk has data but appears blank or displays as audio disk. File System SupportedProvides Data recovery from CD with ISO9660 and Joliet file system created on all major operating systems including Windows, Linux, Unix distributions.

Have you ever pushed at your Notebook the button at your CD/DVD drive by accident? This small programme blocks the eject button at almost every CD/DVD drive and gives the user the power of controlling the CD/DVD drive by a small icon at the windows system tray. This is a useful tool for all users working with their Notebook, but is maybe also of interest for desktop user

CDRom-Lock is awindows tool that protect yout cdrom by blocking the eject button.

After starting the programme (or after startup of Windows) you will find a small CD icon at your system tray. You can either lock, unlock, open or close you CD/DVD drives directly by a right click on the tray icon or maximize the main window of the programme.

Whats New in This Release:

· The drive status is now visualized at the main window by a green (unlocked) or red (locked symbol) and also in the system tray menu.
· With version 0.5.3 the "close all" and "open all" commands have not worked if called from the systray. This bug has been fixed.
· From version 0.5.4 on I will additionallly provide an installer that includes all VB runtime libraries, used by the programme. If you encounter problems with execution of the programme, please try this. Unfortunately the file size for this version is 1.6MB

Copyint CDDA to disk using ASPI interface (Windows-95 /NT) for SCSI CDROM/DCR orgeneric WIN32 interface (Windows-NT) for all CDROM/CDR.

Great tool for automatically html-indexing your (media-)files on cdrom or harddisk.