CD insert/eject detection

[Mark Bryan Yu]

Hi,

I'm trying to make a Audio CD ripper using python.

is there a way (library, module, etc) to detect when a CD was inserted
or ejected?

 

[Larry Bates]

Hi,

I'm trying to make a Audio CD ripper using python.

is there a way (library, module, etc) to detect when a CD was inserted
or ejected?

That is going to be OS dependent, so please share with us
what OS you are on?

-Larry

 

[Mark Bryan Yu]

That is going to be OS dependent, so please share with us
what OS you are on?

-Larry

Linux. I guess that means i need to make a C/C++ module extension to
do such task.

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Linux. I guess that means i need to make a C/C++ module extension to
do such task.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-dbus.html

might be a start.

Diez

 

[shandy.b]

I've never used it myself, but pygame (based on SDL - so it should
work for MS Windows, Linux, and Apple OSX) has a CD module with some
potentially useful functions, CD.eject() and CD.get_empty().

http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/cdrom.html#pygame.cdrom.CD

-sjbrown