ESD Enhanced CDs -- Frequently-Asked Questions

All of the ESD Wendy Carlos CDs are enhanced with additional material from www.wendycarlos.com, including some files that are rather large for Internet delivery.

There are two different versions of the Wendy Carlos ECD material thus far:

If you have difficulties with the ECD, please check the readme file, which follows. If that does not answer your question, please send email--we'll try to answer your questions and post the results back up here.

Playing ECDs on your Computer

Your computer thinks the ECD is a data disk, but you want to play the music. You will need to start the CD Player program, then play the music. The quickest way to do this is:
  1. insert a normal audio CD and let the player program start up
  2. eject the audio CD
  3. insert the ECD
  4. press Play
For Windows users, if your CD player software does not recognize the music on the disk, try using CDMax. It's a freeware player that includes links to the CDDB database of album and song titles. Click here to go to the CDMax homepage.

Version 1 Read Me

README File for
Wendy Carlos "hypertext-enhanced" CD
V1.1
October 1998

This CD is a little different from most enhanced CDs. With the idea that it should be useful for years to come, it consists of basic HTML files, the language of the World Wide Web. No videos, no animation, no special software required. In fact, the material here is adapted from Wendy's own website, http://www.wendycarlos.com.

An Internet connection is not required in order to view the materials on this enhanced CD. To start, click "index.htm" on the CD. If you have a web browser installed, it should start up and display the opening page. Click the link "Wendy Carlos Information" to go into the CD.

If you have Internet access, we invite you to visit the websites for Wendy Carlos and for ESD. They are linked from the opening page. The Wendy Carlos site in particular, has many links to related sites and resources on the Internet. Plus, it's a "living page," always changing and growing.

REQUIREMENTS:

Any computer capable of displaying HTML files using a browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. Version 2.0 or greater is recommended, since tables are used in these files. However, frames are not used.

The files on the data portion of the CD are in ISO-9660 format, which is readable on Windows, Macintosh, and other computer platforms.

ABOUT THE RESOURCES PAGE:

To use the MIDI files and tuning tables referenced on the "Resources" page, you will need a file decompression utility that can access "StuffIt" compressed files. Most Macintosh machines come with StuffIt Expander pre-installed (you can upgrade to the latest version at Aladdin's website).

Users of Windows and DOS operating systems can obtain a copy of the free expander from Aladdin Systems, Inc. at http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/

SUPPORT:

We will endeavor to answer your technical questions about this enhanced CD. However, we're a record company, not a software company. Before contacting us, please visit our website (http://www.noside.com/esd/). From the Wendy Carlos page, click on "Enhanced CD FAQ." There you will find answers to frequently-asked questions about these enhanced CDs.

WARRANTY:

This material is provided "as is", with no warranty, express or implied, as to its usability. Neither East Side, Inc. nor Serendip shall assume any liability resulting from the use, or inability to use this material.

All materials on this enhanced CD are (c) Wendy Carlos. All rights reserved.

Version 2 -- Switched-On Boxed Set ECD under Linux

(added January 2000)
We've recently had a comment from a Linux user who is not able to access the content on the ECD (disk IV of the boxed set).

Unlike the previous ECDs, the disc was designed for Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and Macintosh systems, using "long file names" (longer than the old 8.3 all-caps standard). There are actually two sets of data on the ECD, one for each file system (ISO-9660 Joliet for Windows, HFS for Macintosh). Linux and Unix systems use a third file naming format called "Rock Ridge".

Accommodating all three formats on the ECD would have been quite difficult at this time. We found a very helpful CD-R FAQ, which says "This is a tricky one because of issues with long filenames and file attributes." Click here to read the full explanation.

However there is a solution. To make the ECD work, the user who wrote to us built a new Linux kernel with the Joliet option in the ISO-9660 file system enabled -- everything now works perfectly.

 

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Last updated January 27, 2000
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