Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 20:01:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: kaduk@MIT.EDU Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> Subject: Re: Audio CDs Not Playing Message-ID: <201408011801.s71I19Vr062661@enceladus10.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1407310959100.21571@multics.mit.edu> References: <53D97A50.8090006@gmx.us> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1407302123080.21571@multics.mit.edu> <53D9A676.6050303@gmx.us>
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In article <alpine.GSO.1.10.1407310959100.21571@multics.mit.edu> 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 <cdcontrol> 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
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