From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 8 16: 1: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8254237B419 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:01:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-211.wobline.de [212.68.69.222]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fB900lA12760; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:00:47 +0100 Received: from tisys.org (poison.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.5]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fB901tX02874; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:01:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: (from nils@localhost) by tisys.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB900r226787; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:00:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:00:17 +0100 From: Nils Holland To: David Loszewski Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't mount audio cds Message-ID: <20011209010017.C26619@tisys.org> Mail-Followup-To: David Loszewski , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3C129869.4010605@mediaone.net> <3C129A4C.7050209@owt.com> <3C129D07.50009@mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C129D07.50009@mediaone.net>; from stealth215@mediaone.net on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 06:06:47PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poison.ncptiddische.net 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-Machine-Uptime: 12:45AM up 14:04, 1 user, load averages: 0.33, 0.21, 0.13 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 06:06:47PM -0500, David Loszewski stood up and spoke: > well how do I play it if i can't mount it? I won't be able to see > anything to play. To play an audio CD, you need a piece of software that can do that. /usr/ports/audio should have a few CD player applications. You do not need to mount or otherwise work with an audio CD since the computer technically has very little to do with playing them. The components that "decode" the music on the CD are located in the CD-ROM drive - what gets out of the drive is already real, analog audio (though some CD-ROM drives also have digital output). Your computer only sends instructions like "skip to track 2" or "Pause" to the CD-ROM drive. One of the many CD player applications will do just that - without mounting the CD, as has already been pointed out. Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message