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From: Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:59:23
Message-Id: 20111020095815.43d4f242@toxic.dbnet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing by Colleen Beamer
1 Am Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:27:20 -0400
2 schrieb Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com>:
3
4 > On 10/19/11 10:25, J. Roeleveld wrote:
5 > > On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote:
6 > >> Semi-solved.
7 > >>
8 > >> On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote:
9 > >>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer
10 > >>> <colleen.beamer@×××××.com> wrote:
11 > >>>> Hi everyone,
12 > >>>>
13 > >>>>
14 > >>>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.
15 > >>>> I've tried with kscd and Kaffeine.
16 > >>>>
17 > >>>>
18 > >>>> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box
19 > >>>> that says:
20 > >>>> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
21 > >> I can now play an audio CD in kaffeine. I have no idea what I
22 > >> did! I did add a couple of packages and because of this changed
23 > >> some use flags and updated my system with --newuse, but that's all
24 > >> I did.
25 > >>
26 > >> However, I still cannot play a CD in kscd.
27 > > Hi Colleen,
28 > >
29 > > I didn't find it in this thread yet, but I am wondering if you have
30 > > the CD-drive connected to the soundcard or not.
31 > >
32 > > Some applications will "rip" and play the cdda-tracks directly from
33 > > the CD. Others will simply tell the CD-drive to play an audio-cd
34 > > and have the cd-drive do the decoding.
35 > > In the latter case, the audio-signal goes over a little cable from
36 > > the cd-drive to the soundcard.
37 >
38 > I assume that it is connected because I could play an audio file (ogg)
39 > from my hard drive. Also, now I can play CD's using kaffeine, just
40 > not kscd. I can rip them using asunder.
41
42 hi colleen,
43
44 that is not how it works, those are two very different methods of
45 playing audio. if the cable between the cdrom and the soundcard is
46 connected, you can play CDs directly from the drive with minimum
47 software interaction or "tell the cdrom to play the cd on the
48 soundcard". that has nothing to do with playing ogg from HD, the data
49 takes a totally different path.
50
51 i do not know if kscd does that, but as joost pointed out that would be
52 a good explanation why you can play CDs in kaffeine but not in kscd.
53 check for the cable.
54
55 /jonas
56
57 >
58 > Regards,
59 >
60 > Colleen
61 >
62 >
63 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@×××.net>