tosha reads CD-DA (digital audio) and CD-XA (digital video) tracks and writes them to the harddisk. Several audio formats are supported: raw PCM (little-endian and big-endian byte order), WAV / RIFF, AIFF and Sun AU. You can also pipe the data directly into an audio or video player. A simple audio player is included ("pcmplay"). To playback VideoCD data, you need a third-party product, for example MpegTV (see http://www.mpegtv.com/). tosha reads the digital audio / video data through the SCSI bus; therefore it does not work with IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drives nor with proprietary interfaces. Oliver Fromme