On Friday 23 March 2007, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > 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". > > 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. > > 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 have the same problems with audacious as I do with xmms - it doesn't recognise the existence of any audio cd, in either of my drives (I haven't yet found where you can tell it which drive to use, although in xmms I have, and it made no difference). The additional problem is that I need double-size display. Selecting that gives me double-size, but the window doesn't resize, and nor does it allow manual re-sizing, so I can only see one quarter of the display. If you have any solutions for either of these, I'd be glad to hear them. Anne
