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On Monday 08 May 2006 15:38, Jeremy Olexa wrote: |
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> Mattias Merilai wrote: |
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> > Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> >> Stéfan is right, you need an analog audio cable connecting your CD |
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> >> drive to your soundcard (or, if your soundcard support it, a digital |
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> >> one). Else the drive can't send audio to your speakers. |
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> > "The other o/s" can send audio to the soundcard via the system bus. |
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> > Anybody knows if and when is this going to happen on the good o/s too? |
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> I don't think you need that silly cable. My understanding was that the |
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> audio cable connected to you sound card was for when you wanted to |
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> listen to the cd and your computer was in "low-power mode" Either way, I |
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> have stopped installing that cable on new computers that I build and it |
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> has always worked fine for me. |
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No you do not. XMMS can use "audio out" (ie plug the CDROM Audio cable into |
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the soundcard) or DAE (Digital audio extraction), where it reads the cdrom |
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drive as if its raw data, and does the conversion to sound in software. This |
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results in the "audio over bus" that the original poster pointed out. |
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To do this. you need to install an xmms-plugin (they did not come with my xmms |
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version). There are two of them in portage to my knowledge: |
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"AudioCD Reader" : libcdread.so |
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"CD Audio Player" : libcdaudio.so |
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Out of the two, I use CD Audio Player, because it has more features, such as |
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Multiple CD-ROM support. This allows me to plugin in external CD-ROM's (such |
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as USB CD-ROMS, and SCSI CD-ROMs/CD changers) and use them to play audio CD's |
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Note that in both drivers, you need to state you want to use DAE rather then |
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the old analog method (this is due to the fact that not all CD-ROM's have |
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good DAE capabilities). Under "CD Audio Player", you need to set "Play mode" |
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to "Digital audio extraction", along with configuring/checking your drive. |
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In portage they are called: |
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"media-plugins/xmms-cdaudio" => "CD Audio Player" |
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and |
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"media-plugins/xmms-cdread" => "AudioCD Reader" |
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emerge one of them, restart xmms, and you're set ;) |
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Happy listening! |
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