Jonathan Corbet <lwn-fedora-test@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Sometime over the last month, a rawhide update bestowed upon me a > version of gnome-cd which skips. Bits of the audio drop out every 30 > seconds or so. Update time: research tells me that gnome-cd is reading the data from the CD and feeding it to the sound card itself. At least, when I play a CD with gnome-cd, the "PCM" mixer control affects the playback volume, while the "CD" control does not. If, instead, I play with cdplay or grip, the volume is adjusted with the "CD" slider. The gnome-cd people had to go to some effort to make it work that way; one wonders what advantages they were going for. Meanwhile, with current rawhide, the skipping problem has gone away. So I'm happy... jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net corbet@xxxxxxx