Steve _ That is an interesting question. The cdcd software installs ewasily enough; give it a try and tell us what happens. Chuck On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Steve Holmes wrote: > I don't presently have a sound card in that 486 I'm running linux on but > the CD ROM drive does have an ear jack on it. I wonder if I could use the > program in that primative state to take advantage of the CD database. > > On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > > Jacob - > > > > I installed cdcd without any problems, and am in love with it! You and > > Buddy were absolutely right. What a pleasure this little program is. I > > especially like the cd database feature and have retrieved available info > > on my collection of CD's to start with. Thanks for the pointer. > > Chuck > > > > > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Jacob Schmude wrote: > > > > > HI > > > Currently, there's no such thing. And there's better CD players than > > > WorkBone. One, cdcd, is command-line and interactive. The interactive > > > thing is like a ftp-style prompt, where you'd enter commands like "play" > > > and 'stop". And it supports CDDB, which workbone doesn't. However, > > > workbone can be operated by the numbers on the regular keyboard as well. > > > Though it's kind of hard to understand how the keys are layed out, because > > > the help screens have the stuff layed out in the numeric keypad with > > > arrows on screen rather than text. For example, stop is labeled with == > > > rather than the word. This made it really hard for me to learn it. > > > If you want it, cdcd is available at: > > > http://cdcd.undergrid.net > > > or I could send a slackware package if you want it. > > > > > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > > > > > I don't know if this is already covered or not, but is there a "pass > > > > through" key for speakup? I'm thinking of programs like workbone to play > > > > CD's which uses the numeric keypad to operate it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (82% of Full) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Gibbous (51% of Full)
