On Monday 08 May 2006 16:04, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 5/8/06, Stefán István <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hétfő 08 május 2006 11.32 dátummal Walter Dnes ezt írta: > > > I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live > > > audio CDs (not a data CD with mp3 files). The XMMS docs aren't really > > > helpful. Do I need an additional plug-in? mplayer is worse. > > > "mplayer /dev/cdrom" tries to play a file by that name. I emerged > > > cdplay and "cdplay -c -v" gets the CD spinning and the output indicates > > > that it is playing, but I get no sound. I have unmuted the CD player > > > and set its volume via alsactl. One additional complication is that > > > there is no headphone jack near the CD tray, so I assume I have to go > > > via the soundcard. > > > > Has your CD player been connected with your sound card? If not, I think > > you won't hear any sound. > > Stéfan is right, you need an analog audio cable connecting your CD > drive to your soundcard (or, if your soundcard support it, a digital > one). Else the drive can't send audio to your speakers. >
no, he is not. You don't need the audio-cable to hear music from a cd - just the right application ;) like: kscd amarok -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
