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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 01:46:37
Message-Id: 18A37A16-E2E0-436B-9751-7D6727A46B23@jolet.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD? by Willie Wong
1 On May 9, 2006, at 8:34 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
2
3 > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:35:04PM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes
4 > squawked:
5 >> - alsamixer CD unmuted and volume set to 77
6 >> - I am a member of audio and cdrom groups
7 >> - the "cdplay" program sees the number of tracks and and their
8 >> lengths on the cdrom. "cdplay -c -v" goes through the motions of
9 >> playing the cdrom. The cdrom spins, and cdplay lists each
10 >> track as
11 >> it's played... but there is no sound.
12 >> - /dev/cdrom is correctly symlinked to /dev/hda
13 >> - I've tried both the xmms-cdaudio and xmms-cdread plugins.
14 >> xmms-cdaudio has a "Check CD drive" option. When I click it, the
15 >> cdrom spins, and I get a list of tracks which matches the
16 >> output I
17 >> get from "cdplay --listtracks".
18 >>
19 >
20 > This might be an overkill, but have you tried mplayer? If you already
21 > have it installed, I think mplayer cdda://{tracknumber} would work,
22 > and if I remember correctly, mplayer would read the digital audio,
23 > rather than use the DAC in the CDROM.
24 maybe i missed part of the thread, but does it have to be graphical?
25 There are quite a few curses or command-line cd/mp3 players...
26
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