Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Jonas de Buhr]

Am Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:58:15 +0200
schrieb Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@×××.net>:

> Am Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:27:20 -0400
> schrieb Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com>:
>
> > On 10/19/11 10:25, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > > On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> > >> Semi-solved.
> > >>
> > >> On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > >>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer
> > >>> <colleen.beamer@×××××.com> wrote:
> > >>>> Hi everyone,
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.
> > >>>> I've tried with kscd and Kaffeine.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box
> > >>>> that says:
> > >>>> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
> > >> I can now play an audio CD in kaffeine.  I have no idea what I
> > >> did!  I did add a couple of packages and because of this changed
> > >> some use flags and updated my system with --newuse, but that's
> > >> all I did.
> > >>
> > >> However, I still cannot play a CD in kscd.
> > > Hi Colleen,
> > >
> > > I didn't find it in this thread yet, but I am wondering if you
> > > have the CD-drive connected to the soundcard or not.
> > >
> > > Some applications will "rip" and play the cdda-tracks directly
> > > from the CD. Others will simply tell the CD-drive to play an
> > > audio-cd and have the cd-drive do the decoding.
> > > In the latter case, the audio-signal goes over a little cable from
> > > the cd-drive to the soundcard.
> >
> > I assume that it is connected because I could play an audio file
> > (ogg) from my hard drive.  Also, now I can play CD's using
> > kaffeine, just not kscd.  I can rip them using asunder.
>
> hi colleen,
>
> that is not how it works, those are two very different methods of
> playing audio. if the cable between the cdrom and the soundcard is
> connected, you can play CDs directly from the drive with minimum
> software interaction or "tell the cdrom to play the cd on the
> soundcard". that has nothing to do with playing ogg from HD, the data
> takes a totally different path.
>
> i do not know if kscd does that, but as joost pointed out that would
> be a good explanation why you can play CDs in kaffeine but not in
> kscd. check for the cable.

or tell kscd to use digital playback:

http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/408961-kscd-wont-play-cds-sata-drive.html
>
> /jonas
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Colleen
> >
> >
> >
>