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?
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John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:15:52 -0500, John Culleton wrote:

> 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?

workbone

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If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
Linux Registered User #327951

John Culleton wrote:
> 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?

workbone?

John Culleton wrote:

> 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?

DCD perhaps?

http://dcdplayer.sourceforge.net/

Joe

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:15:52 -0500, John Culleton wrote:

> 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.

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:27:03 -0600, Dan C wrote:

> On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:15:52 -0500, John Culleton wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> workbone

I would try gcdplay

JB

Franklin wrote:

> On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:15:52 -0500, John Culleton wrote:
>
>> 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.

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SuperDaemon wrote:
> Franklin wrote:
>
>
>>On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:15:52 -0500, John Culleton wrote:
>>
>>
>>>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 :-) )

- --
Lew Pitcher

Master Codewright & JOAT-in-training | GPG public key available on request
Registered Linux User #112576 (http://counter.li.org/)
Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing.
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On 2006-01-08, SuperDaemon <SuperDaemon@DiskAndExecutionMonitorsInc.biz> wrote:

> for me neither workbone nor kscd work.

You need to change permissions for workbone. Typically, workbone will
issue an advisory to this the first time it's invoked.

nb

Lew Pitcher wrote:

> 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.

Oh wonderfull. Now I understand. Thanks Lew; great. I would check the
cable next time when I turn the PC off.