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		colonwqbang on March 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) Can you script a CD-ROM to jump off its shelf and into the CD-ROM reader?

DonHopkins on March 9, 2022 | [–]

Can you script Steve Jobs to let them simply submit the high quality rips and metadata they already had?

mcast on March 9, 2022 | [–]

You could probably emulate a CD driver using the WAV files from your server.

yurishimo on March 9, 2022 | [–]

This is a neat idea! I wish I had some software to test this entire workflow and build some automation, just for fun. :)

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