Coolest Bug Evar!

[flwyd]

The CD drive on my laptop at work is a little picky about the CDs it wants to play. It's not very forgiving about scratches, and even a few CDs that don't look scratched give it fits. It's pretty regular about which CDs it will play and which it won't, but I sometimes don't remember that list first thing in the morning when I select music to bring in to work.

So I just listened to the first three tracks of Squirrel Nut Zippers - Perennial Favorites (a fine album, BTW). In the middle of track four, it started that "da-da-da-da-da" repeat noise, repeatedly playing a half second or so of music. When it's a CD of electronic music, the effect sometimes almost blends in, but it sounds pretty annoying on swing. So after trying to fast forward and skip tracks, I gave up on the CD and put in Soul Hooligan - Music Like Dirt (another fine product). It played the first few beats, and then picked up back where it had left off on the SNZ disc, jumps and all, with an occasional start back in to Soul Hooligan. There's nothing quite so odd as automatic and unintentional sampling. Ejecting and reinserting the CD didn't change the effect, but quiting and opening it again worked just fine. But I suspect gnome-cd needs a little work on management of cached sound.

Of course, this is better than Windows Media Player. I noticed there that when I paused a CD and hit play again, it would play a second or two of pre-cached sound and then wait for the drive to spin up so it could continue, giving an odd sensation of one second of sound, two seconds of silence, then full sound. You'd think they could either make a large enough cache or clear the cache on pause, but we all know Microsoft...

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[altamira16.livejournal.com]

I had that problem. I called the laptop company and had them send a new one.