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From: James Shaughnessy <james@manc.u-net.com>
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Subject: Re: Determining # of tracks
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:23:31 +0000
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Hi Scott,
I found this problem too and posted numerous messages to try and find a
solution, to no avail.  I'm SURE there is a way though -- someone's just
not letting on!

The result was the CD Player in Grav always thinks there are exactly 20
tracks on a CD (I guessed 20 was ample without being too many).  Bit of a
pain, but what y'gonna do.  The biggest problem with CDPlay() is that it
seems to always find dummy tracks, and loves skipping all over the place,
and not going to the next track properly.  Strange when the PSX's built-in
CD Player plays all CDs perfectly.  Just an iffy Yaroze lib function of
course, but I'm just glad they let us have this much!

Jim

Scott Cartier wrote:

> Posted this in the "programming" group, but figure it belongs here too.
>
> How does one determine how many music tracks there are on an audio CD
> from within your program?  When using CdPlay() I'd like to avoid
> accessing non-existant tracks if I can.
>
> Scott