add media type to hal

Robert Love rml at ximian.com
Thu Mar 25 17:10:08 EET 2004


On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 10:02, Bastien Nocera wrote:

Hi, hadess.

> I didn't bring up the idea, I whinged ;)

You inspired :)

> CDS_XA_* aren't really iso9660. They're a bit like mixed CDs, the only
> difference between the 2 is what the main purpose is for the CD: CD
> Extra has a data track at the end (main purpose is audio playback), the
> Mixed CD has it at the front (main purpose is the data, with bonus
> tracks at the end, like some old games or magazine CDs used to have).
> 
> BTW, CD Plus is the old name for CD Extra, a Mixed CD isn't a CD Plus :)

I always thought "CD Plus!" was what Microsoft called a mixed CD.  My
audio CD's that have data tracks on the end show up as CDS_MIXED.

Anyhow, I understand that CDS_XA_* is not iso9660.  Should I change that
to "data" or do you have another suggestion?

	Robert Love






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