On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Paul Winkler wrote: > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] alsa / xmms / delta card > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:16:02PM -0500, John Bleichert wrote: > > If xmms plays mp3 and wav files to PCM Out, how come it doesn't play CD > > audio to the same output stream? There is no CD audio header on the delta > > card - how do people using these cards listen to audio CDs? > > with a program that extracts the audio data and sends it as PCM data > to the PCM outputs. > > > How do they > > get the audio to play via the IDE cables and not the old reliable direct > > connection from CDROM to sound card? FWIW I have the output plugin in xmms > > set to the OSS driver, which snd-pcm-oss seems to pick up just fine. > > > > Are there any ALSA cd players that can handle this? > > IIRC, you can do that with AlsaPlayer. > and I think there's an XMMS plugin to do the same thing. not sure. > Ok. I get it. The cdda2wav trick (from another post) worked. I'll look into the xmms plugin, but it looks like I may hafta write my own CD player. If i had the time... Thanks for the feedback - JB ___________________________________ John Bleichert syborg@xxxxxxxxxxx
