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PlayCD, SB16CD and RippCD (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 30.07.2026, 07:41

Hello,

I forgot to announce some additions that were done to the old PlayCD tool:


- PlayCD uses the "Play CD" command to render sound; - that is, it expects a
  existing connection between the CD drive and the sound card.
- SB16CD renders sound by reading the audio disk and writing the data into the
  sound card's sample buffer. Thus it doesn't need a physical connection
  between CD drive and sound card. Requires the optical device to support
  "long reads".
- RippCD may be used to 'rip' Audio CDs. Emits .cue and .wav files.


https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/PlayCD

For SATA optical devices running in AHCI mode, you'll probably need the preliminary Jemm v5.87 with included JLM AHCICD.DLL - AFAIK it's the only AHCI CD driver for DOS that supports the audio functions.

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Complete thread:

• PlayCD, SB16CD and RippCD - Japheth, 30.07.2026, 07:41 (Announce)
  • PlayCD, SB16CD and RippCD - Laaca, 30.07.2026, 09:50
    • PlayCD, SB16CD and RippCD - Japheth, 30.07.2026, 10:06
      • PlayCD, SB16CD and RippCD - Laaca, 30.07.2026, 23:39
        • PlayCD, SB16CD and RippCD - Japheth, 31.07.2026, 07:45