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Date:      Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:19:02 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        "Michael D. Norwick" <mnorwick@centurytel.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't access a music CD (or any other media now)
Message-ID:  <20111020051902.1d120865.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <4E9F7899.6070401@centurytel.net>
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:25:45 -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
> Before I recompiled the kernel, when I inserted a music CD, Gnome would 
> display a folder containing the *.wav files but I could not play them 
> (using the command line or not). 

There are no *.wav files on a music CD. This must be some
kind of representation known from "Windows" land where files (!)
are displayed that do NOT exist. And *.wav is especially
wrong as a WAV file would contain a header and data, while
a CD audio track is DATA ONLY (in a strictly defined
format). Seems that Gnome "inherited" that nonsense...

What if you use Gnome's CD playing application, or something
like XMMS with the CD audio plugin? I think your permissions
are okay so you could make the drive play from your (non-root)
user account.




-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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