John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> schrieb:
> Some years back I used a command line audio player for cdroms [...]. Can
> anyone remember what the name of that little jewel was?

for simple playback duties I like the utilities of the cdtool package:

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/CDTOOL

it offers "cdplay", "cdpause", "cdstop", "cdeject" etc. for the CLI.

Best, Chris

Lew Pitcher wrote:

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> SuperDaemon wrote:
>> Franklin wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:15:52 -0500, John Culleton wrote:
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>>>
>>>>Some years back I used a command line audio player for cdroms that
>>>>actually worked, as opposed to the half-dozen or so gui programs on
>>>>Slack that don't. Can anyone remember what the name of that little jewel
>>>>was?
>>>
>>>As Dan_C and Martin stated, workbone is what you are likely thinking of.
>>>Just out of curiosity, which gui app are you having aproblem with and
>>>what might that problem be.
>>
>>
>> for me neither workbone nor kscd work. xmms and kaboodle do. Don't know
>> why. kscd seem to spin the disk, see the tracks but no audio comes out of
>> the speakers.
>
> Then it is likely that either you have the "CD audio" input muted or you
> do not have the audio cable that usually runs between the cdrom drive and
> the sound card cd audio input pins.
>
> Workbone and kscd "play" by running the CD in analogue mode, which causes
> the audio to be routed analogue to your sound card (through the audio
> cable between the CDrom drive and the sound card) to be input through the
> "cd audio" input amp. If workbone and kscd are silent, then either you
> have the "cd audio" input amp muted, or there's no cable to handle the
> analogue audio data.
>
> OTOH, xmms and kaboodle can (and usually do) decode the cd audio data
> digitally, by reading the cd (rather than running the CD in analogue
> mode). The input does not go through the audio wire, nor through an
> amplifier, so there's nothing on the input side that would mute it, and
> the output is controlled with the same controls as analogue audio is.
>
> So, first check to see if you have the "cd audio" input amp muted, and if
> not, then check to see if you have the analogue wire between your cdrom
> drive and your soundcard. Otherwise, you'll have to live with digital
> extraction (which
> may not be a bad thing :-) )

Wire is in place and workbone works, just as it always has. Thanks to all.

I chased down the problem with the gui players. While permissions
on /dev/cdrom were wide open that device pointed to /dev/sr0. When I chmod
on sr0 the various gui devices began to play nicely.

Its always permissions it seems.

John Culleton






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