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

[John covici]

on Saturday 06/28/2008 Mick(michaelkintzios@×××××.com) wrote
 > On Thursday 26 June 2008, John covici wrote:
 > > on Thursday 06/26/2008 Joerg Schilling(Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de)
 > > wrote
 > 
 > >  > Then call:
 > >  >
 > >  > cdda2wav -e -N -B
 > >  >
 > >  > If everything is OK, then you will be able to listen to the music.
 > >  > Otherwise you see human readble error messages that point you to the
 > >  > problem.
 > >  >
 > >  > Jörg
 > >
 > > OK, we are now getting somewhere, I did hear sound out of that, now
 > > that is interesting, but how does this work -- does it not copy the
 > > file or is it playing from the drive?  I have cdcd and it thinks its
 > > playing, bu I hear nothing.  Also, I can't get mplayer to do anyting,
 > > it thinks the url is wrong or something, so this is more complicated.
 > >
 > > Thanks much.
 > 
 > When I run cdda2wav -e -N -B I get:
 > ===================================
 > recording 3884.2933 seconds stereo with 16 bits @ 44100.0 Hz
 > percent_done:
 > 100%  track  1 recorded successfully
 > ===================================
 > 
 > The "recording" part confuses me.  Does this mean that the command actually 
 > writes a file on my hard drive or just plays it by passing it on to /dev/dsp?  
 > Am I going to run out of disk space?

The -N prevents writing to disk.

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