Audio CD File System implemented
May 18, 2007 10:30 UTC, by Remi Grumeau, Contributing Journalist
From the Audio department...

 Haiku developer Axel Dorfler has started to work on a CDDA file system for playing audio CDs for Haiku. CDDA-FS allows Haiku users to view and play music tracks from mounted audio CDs as if they were WAV files, like it was in BeOS R5. (for non-BeOS users, an audio CD mounted in BeOS shows a CDA folder and a WAV folder).
 
Seems this was a too easy task for him, his CDDA-FS also supports CD-Text which means that information like album titles, artist names, and song titles available from the CD itself will be shown as file attributes, so that they can be viewed and edited in Tracker.
 
While CDDA-FS is not finished yet, it can already be used to play back CD contents as you can see from the screenshot. The file system is accompanied by a small test application "cdda_text" which also runs under BeOS and prints all information CDDA-FS can retrieve from the specified CD.