Yeah, the default CD player in XMMS (CD Audio Player) plays the audio CDs over the audio cable between the CD-ROM and the soundcard. Should that fail to work (as it seems to be the case with your system), the app must use the other way of playing audio CDs: reading them like a CD ripper (actually read the audio tracks over the IDE cable) and play them like any other WAV file (actually PCM, not WAV). In addition to fixing faulty audio cables, there is one other advantage to this method. If you normally use the analog cable between CD-ROM and soundcard, you loose some sound quality due to inherent problems in any analog line. But AudioCD Reader is a fully digital method, so there is no signal loss. Any CDDA-enabled CD player app should be able to do the same all-digital trick. Examples: ALSAPlayer, Xine, etc. OTOH, if you connect the CD-ROM to the soundcard with a digital cable (some soundcards allow that), and the cable works, then there is no loss, and CDDA or AudioCD Reader are not required, so any CD player would do. On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 00:41, Johann Cohen-Tanugi wrote: > very possible indeed. I have a sony and this is one of the nasty > features.... I managed to get cd audio to work thanks to the linux-sony > list or sony vaio village (don't remember now): essentially > if I remember well you would need in that case to use xmms with the > following in the preferences: enable AudioCD Reader 0.14a [libcdread.so] > AND disable CD Audio Player 1.2.7 [libcdaudio.so] > > My understanding is that one driver dopes the soft link, and not the > other.... > > JOhann > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wolfgang Gill <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "'shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx'" <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: RE: sound on cd player > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:00:32 +1000 > Reply-To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Is the audio cable between the CD-ROM and audio card connected?? (Just a > thought) > > Wolf > > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig Toenes [mailto:mobyg2@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, 12 June 2003 2:53 PM > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: sound on cd player > > > Everything else soundwise is working but I don't get > any sound out of the cd player. The gnome volume > control is cranked. Any and all suggestions would be > helpfull. > TIA -- Florin Andrei "The concept of firewalls has started to have an effect at the cultural level: I once heard a kid on a train describe his mother as a 'stateful firewall' to one of his buddies." - Marcus Ranum
