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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 01:39:07
Message-Id: 20060510013434.GA9121@princeton.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD? by Walter Dnes
1 On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:35:04PM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked:
2 > - alsamixer CD unmuted and volume set to 77
3 > - I am a member of audio and cdrom groups
4 > - the "cdplay" program sees the number of tracks and and their
5 > lengths on the cdrom. "cdplay -c -v" goes through the motions of
6 > playing the cdrom. The cdrom spins, and cdplay lists each track as
7 > it's played... but there is no sound.
8 > - /dev/cdrom is correctly symlinked to /dev/hda
9 > - I've tried both the xmms-cdaudio and xmms-cdread plugins.
10 > xmms-cdaudio has a "Check CD drive" option. When I click it, the
11 > cdrom spins, and I get a list of tracks which matches the output I
12 > get from "cdplay --listtracks".
13 >
14
15 This might be an overkill, but have you tried mplayer? If you already
16 have it installed, I think mplayer cdda://{tracknumber} would work,
17 and if I remember correctly, mplayer would read the digital audio,
18 rather than use the DAC in the CDROM.
19
20 W
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22 1 out of every 5 people thinks the other 4 are idiots.
23 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 178 days, 17:58
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Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD? John Jolet <john@×××××.net>