So, you can still use a normal CD player. I would therefore imagine that the digital data stream coming out of the optical connector is mostly OK. Why not sell an adapter to connect this digital source into the PC. This piece of hardware is perfectly legal, as you are simply backing up your original data. Does anyone know why this isn't done ?
When I was younger, I used to fix CD players, if this digital output is not acceptable, a lot of the older CD players have a serial data stream between decoder and DAC chips, just tapping this off should work quite nicely.
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So, you can still use a normal CD player. I would therefore imagine that the digital data stream coming out of the optical connector is mostly OK. Why not sell an adapter to connect this digital source into the PC. This piece of hardware is perfectly legal, as you are simply backing up your original data. Does anyone know why this isn't done ?
When I was younger, I used to fix CD players, if this digital output is not acceptable, a lot of the older CD players have a serial data stream between decoder and DAC chips, just tapping this off should work quite nicely.