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QEMU fails with (digital) Audio-CD support - Alternatives? (Announce)

posted by FFK , 13.04.2026, 03:38

> While the digital Audio-CD player ( I call it SB16CDr ) works pretty well
> on real machines ( depends a bit on the CD/DVD drive, old ones from the
> 1990s may reveal various problems ), there's a severe problem with Qemu:
> it's apparently unable to provide support for raw mode reads on - real - CD
> drives.
>
> Do better options exist?

I also had a very poor SB16 emulation on both VirtualBox (no sound at all) or PCEm (very poor sound quality)
You can try to use use either DosBox-X or DosBox-Staging which emulate almost well SB16, but I'm not sure if they provide support of CD raw mode.

Complete thread:

• JLM AHCICD: new (preliminary) version - Japheth, 06.04.2026, 22:07 (Announce)
  • QEMU fails with (digital) Audio-CD support - Alternatives? - Japheth, 12.04.2026, 22:45
    • QEMU fails with (digital) Audio-CD support - Alternatives? - FFK, 13.04.2026, 03:38
      • QEMU fails with (digital) Audio-CD support - Alternatives? - Japheth, 16.04.2026, 16:06