Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 14:12:44 -0400 From: Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Audio CDs Not Playing Message-ID: <53DD2A1C.7020009@gmx.us> In-Reply-To: <201408011801.s71I19Vr062661@enceladus10.kn-bremen.de> References: <53D97A50.8090006@gmx.us> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1407302123080.21571@multics.mit.edu> <53D9A676.6050303@gmx.us> <201408011801.s71I19Vr062661@enceladus10.kn-bremen.de>
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On 08/01/2014 02:01 PM, Juergen Lock wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 <cdcontrol> on more current hardware.
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