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From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:21:31
Message-Id: 1987581.ElBrLgSsjY@pc
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing by Jonas de Buhr
1 Am Freitag, 21. Oktober 2011, 22:01:06 schrieb Jonas de Buhr:
2 > Am Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:24:52 +0200
3 >
4 > schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de>:
5 > > Am Freitag, 21. Oktober 2011, 20:35:07 schrieb Jonas de Buhr:
6 > > > Am Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:43:09 -0400
7 > > >
8 > > > schrieb Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com>:
9 > > > > P.S. kscd will display the track listings on the CD, but will
10 > > > > not
11 > > > > play.
12 > > >
13 > > > again, please check for the audio cable going from cd-rom to
14 > > > soundcard or have a look at the link i posted earlier.
15 > >
16 > > FWIW, I don't have this cable and my kscd has no "extras->settings &
17 > > behaviour", where I could switch "use direct digital playback" like
18 > > mentioned in your link (has yours?)
19 >
20 > i just emerged it (i don't normally use CDs more than once for ripping,
21
22 I am old fashioned in this regard. I have ~500 LPs and some more CDs and
23 listen to them on my ancient, but excellent, Onkyo-HiFi.
24 Of course my computer is connected to it, so I can listen to mp3s using this
25 superb hardware too :)
26
27 > can't see why anyone would) and it indeed has not.
28 > maybe the option was moved to the backend?
29
30 Doesn't seem so. I looked really, really hard to find this setting anywhere,
31 cause I remember there was one quite some time ago. Nothing, nowhere afaict.
32
33 > >, but it plays audio-cds just fine
34 > >
35 > > from my SATA-drive.
36 >
37 > well... its not a big revelation that this is possible ;)
38 > as long as the functionality for direct playback (through the extra
39 > cable) wasn't completely removed from kscd (possible, anyone interested
40 > should read the changelogs) it's still a very reasonable explanation
41 > for this problem since it's working in caffeine but not in a "simple"
42 > application like kscd which is more likely to rely on builtin
43 > functionality.
44
45 I think, that this is gstreamer related. Colleen uses phonon-gstreamer,
46 whereas I use phonon-xine, because I had only bad experiences with the
47 gstreamer phonon-backend.
48
49 Best,
50 Michael