Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:31:11 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Akenner <SlackWareWolf@comcast.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Playing audio CDs Message-ID: <44k582ng4w.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <498DD2DE.803@comcast.net> (Akenner's message of "Sat\, 07 Feb 2009 13\:28\:46 -0500") References: <498DD2DE.803@comcast.net>
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Akenner <SlackWareWolf@comcast.net> writes: > I've been searching on the net for like an hour trying to see how to > play a CD on FreeBSD, and normally I'd have just tried mounting it, > being from the Linux world, but when I first checked to be sure of the > proper way, I found mostly info saying not to mount it at all. > > So now I'm not sure what is the right way to do it. On two machines > each having between 1 - 3 drives to play CDs from, I've tried just > loading a CD player app and hitting play, but it doesn't find the CD, > and on one machine there is only one drive so it can't be the wrong > one. > > None of the pages I found said it was OK to mount it, and so I'm a > little confused how you play CDs, and I've used cdplay as root to make > sure I had access since the one app said I couldn't access the CD > drive, and nothing has happened. > > How is the normal way of playing a regular audio CD in FreeBSD? See the entry in the FreeBSD FAQ titled "Why can I not mount an audio CD?" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#MOUNT-AUDIO-CD -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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