Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

[Mark Shields]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Yoav Luft <yoav.luft@×××××.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I posted a similar e-mail a couple of weeks ago and got no response. I wish
> not to spam the mailing list, only for maybe a better luck this time.
> My CD ROM drive had stopped playing audio CD's. It still works fine, data
> CD's work alright and various programs manage to gather useful information
> about the audio CD's tracks, but I hear nothing. I checked all controls in
> alsamixer to be unmuted and at reasonable volume, but it's not it. I can't
> rip the CD's neither. Any ideas what might be wrong?
>

This may not help, but I haven't used the analog or digital cable from the
cdrom to the soundcard to play audio cds in over 5 years; every software
player I've ever used just read the audio data directly from the cdrom.

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- Mark Shields