Also, the cable is needed only if the player uses the CD-player audio capabilities. MPXPLAY does not, it reads and processes audio tracks himself instead.
You will need to fiddle with your mpxplay.ini file for sure. But as for a 'CD Player that works with FreeDOS', I'd say that pretty much any player should work. Have you tried any yet, beside mpxplay? Mateusz On 02/06/2015 22:42, John Hupp wrote: > On 6/2/2015 4:16 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: >> On 6/2/2015 12:16 PM, John Hupp wrote: >>> Are there tips/tricks to get mpxplay to work? What about a CD player >>> that's known to work with FD 1.1? >>> >>> I'm using a default FD 1.1 setup and selecting the first menu item at boot. >>> >> Just to cover all the bases, and probably unrelated to the direct >> software problems, you need to have a cable connecting your CD drive >> directly to your sound card in order to play audio DVDs. That's however >> not necessary to play MP3 files (which are just data files)... >> >> http://superuser.com/questions/566611/sound-output-connector-on-cd-rom-drive >> >> Ralf > > Hah! I did indeed forget to reconnect the cable during the various trials. > > But as you also note, it is unrelated to the software problems. I still > get nothing with the cable connected. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
