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From: Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:28:21
Message-Id: 4E9F9518.1010101@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing by "J. Roeleveld"
1 On 10/19/11 10:25, J. Roeleveld wrote:
2 > On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote:
3 >> Semi-solved.
4 >>
5 >> On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote:
6 >>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer
7 >>> <colleen.beamer@×××××.com> wrote:
8 >>>> Hi everyone,
9 >>>>
10 >>>>
11 >>>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've
12 >>>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.
13 >>>>
14 >>>>
15 >>>> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that
16 >>>> says:
17 >>>> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
18 >> I can now play an audio CD in kaffeine. I have no idea what I did! I
19 >> did add a couple of packages and because of this changed some use flags
20 >> and updated my system with --newuse, but that's all I did.
21 >>
22 >> However, I still cannot play a CD in kscd.
23 > Hi Colleen,
24 >
25 > I didn't find it in this thread yet, but I am wondering if you have the
26 > CD-drive connected to the soundcard or not.
27 >
28 > Some applications will "rip" and play the cdda-tracks directly from the
29 > CD. Others will simply tell the CD-drive to play an audio-cd and have the
30 > cd-drive do the decoding.
31 > In the latter case, the audio-signal goes over a little cable from the
32 > cd-drive to the soundcard.
33
34 I assume that it is connected because I could play an audio file (ogg)
35 from my hard drive. Also, now I can play CD's using kaffeine, just not
36 kscd. I can rip them using asunder.
37
38 Regards,
39
40 Colleen
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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@×××.net>