Re: How to play an audio CD?

[Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kwan Lowe wrote:

Can someone please explain to me how to play an audio CD in FC-6.

I insert the disc, an icon pops up on the desk top, I can select xmms, but
after that I am lost?

The real problem is trying to troubleshoot a Windows2000/FC6 computer
that has a problem.

But I should at least know how to make it play on this computer.

I am stuck ...

    

You might want to use the application called "audacious" instead of xmms. It's
almost identical in usage and appearance:

   yum -y install audacious

Once installed, launch the application (should create a menu entry in your KDE and
Gnome menus).  When it loads, press ALT-C to bring up the CD player -or-, right
click the titlebar, go to playback, then "Play CD".

  

I'll try that tomorrow.

A few things also:
1) Check if there's a cable running from your CD player to your motherboard. If
there's a cable then the CD should play through directly to your soundcard.  If it's
not there, then you'll need to do as Anne suggested and use the extraction method.
This is not usually desirable since it requires more CPU.
  

When I got it to play the CD I could pull the small connector off and things continued without that audio path.

2) If you don't get sound, check your ALSA sound levels by running kmix or the gnome
mixer (forget the name). You should have a speaker icon on your desktop also,
similar to the Windows volume control.
  

I had sound, I just could not get the CD to do anything with xmms.  I expected it would "just work."  Oh and I use XFCE which probably confuses things a bit ...

Thank you.

Bob Goodwin