From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 2 18:11:11 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29CC13BA for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 18:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.com (mout.gmx.com [74.208.4.200]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E08DC2D15 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 18:11:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.81] ([172.15.184.248]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmxus002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MH0ia-1XIZhq0uDi-00Dkbz for ; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 20:11:04 +0200 Message-ID: <53DD2A1C.7020009@gmx.us> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 14:12:44 -0400 From: Dutch Ingraham User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Audio CDs Not Playing References: <53D97A50.8090006@gmx.us> <53D9A676.6050303@gmx.us> <201408011801.s71I19Vr062661@enceladus10.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <201408011801.s71I19Vr062661@enceladus10.kn-bremen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:bFUvUylJuJuzX4egjLW3LHiwYFVcyXwdastyS7rojsFB6tfH1pu Cy93DiJlkfD8znVlxOOjWkp4NdVAjuW9m03OKNf6ykfY77Jd3Jqmnj+/onAXN77V0hD/QdX VP2D8X4+dfoRT3Q52hu9z8tiG6c9w0jKwfJY64xDNzpNu/dfgiNbts00ejRFASV1A6Kdp6p MccAOY6ICJbbhx8v4PyGw== X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:11:11 -0000 On 08/01/2014 02:01 PM, Juergen Lock wrote: > In article you write: >> On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the info, Ben. I had actually seen something on that issue in an >>> old (May 2008) daemonforums post while researching this problem. There, the >>> poster suggested using amarok or xmms - programs capable of "digital audio >>> extraction" ( I don't know what that is ) and in which it was implied that >>> cdcontrol was not capable of. >>> >>> xmms is deprecated and I don't want the hundreds of files that come with >>> amarok. I suppose I could try something like audacious, but as noted, vlc >>> doesn't work either, so I'd prefer to not get into the cycle of downloading a >>> bunch of similar programs just to find out there was a simple setting I was >>> missing. >>> >>> Also, the current man page for and the handbook don't adress such >>> a restriction that I could find. >>> >>> Does "digital audio extraction" mean anything to you or is it helpful in ay >>> way? >> >> I think I know what it means. The easiest way to think about it is >> probably to realize that in order to play audio, the bits recorded on the >> CD have to make it to the digital-analog converter somehow. If there's no >> direct line from the CD drive to the sound card (as we were discussing in >> the trimmed text), then that data has to be moved around in software. >> Some tool is needed to extract the audio data from the CD drive, and some >> tool is needed to send those off to the sound card; these tools can be the >> same, but need not be. >> >> I tend to use cdparanoia for the first step, and the play(1) utility >> provided by audio/sox for the second step, leaving the bits around on my >> (sizable) hard drive for later use. It sounds like xmms and amarok can >> combine the two steps into one, without leaving the bits on disk as an >> intermediate; I'm not sure offhand whether there are more lightweight >> utilities that can also do so. >> >> -Ben > > You can use mplayer built with CDIO knob too, see this forum thread: > > https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?&t=27167#p198402 > > (which also has info about xpt0 and passX permssions to be adjusted > if you want to do this as non-root.) > > HTH, :) > Juergen > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Thanks, Juergen. Nice thread, also confirming Tijl's information on the use (or non-use) of on more current hardware.