[Sussex] New PC, frustration, frustration.

[Desmond Armstrong]

On 21/06/11 22:03, Jan Henkins wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> On Tue, June 21, 2011 20:43, johnsemailaccount at gmail.com wrote:
>> While the system found and allowed me to copy the music DVD's back to the
>>   hard drive (well my /home/music), the machine doesn't seem to see the
>> actual drive with an audio CD in it.
> This is because an audio CD doesn't have a file system in the strictest
> sense. Normal data CD's and DVD's have some form of file system (e.g.
> ISO9660), which is why you can mount them and see the physical files on
> them. Audio CD's follows different rules, because the format predates
> computers.

??????
They may pre-date Microsoft but they do not pre-date computers.

The program you should consider is 'grip' and combined with 'lame' can 
make your mp3 files for you.