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

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
> Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> > If you have only one CD drive, the CD will play with:
>> >
>> >        cdda2wav -e -B -N
>> >
>> > Jörg
>>
>> On my system here the above command didn't result in any audio being
>> played, nor do I find any files left on disk. I suspect it's because
>> of the message:
>>
>> cdda2wav: Bad file descriptor. Cannot open sound device '/dev/dsp'.
>>
>> Now, I have a Virtualbox VM open running Windows NT where I was
>> watching a movie earlier. Possibly it still has /dev/dsp locked?
>>
>>  mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -la /dev/dsp
>> crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 14, 3 Oct 19 06:23 /dev/dsp
>> mark@c2stable ~ $
>
> Well, then it may be impossible to create sound on your system in this state.
>

But that's only a guess on my part. Unless I shutdown all the VMs and
possibly also reboot the system to ensure nothing is left in the way I
won't know.

>
>
>> The listing below took about 1 minute to generate.
>
> Well, it did also _read_ the whole disk.
>
> cdda2wav was able to extract the audio data and would have produced sound in
> case that the audio devices was accessible.
>
> If I got the problem correctly, then other software was not able to find the
> right way to access the drive.
>
> Jörg


Certainly, I do get that in my case it did read the whole disk but I
use cdda2wav to copy CDs all the time so in my case I have no doubt
that program works. However cdda2wav continuing to do the copying when
it couldn't access the playback device seems like a bit of a waste,
but fixing it likely isn't worth the effort.

It would possibly be valuable for Colleen to run the same command also
just to compare.

- Mark