on Thursday 06/26/2008 Joerg Schilling([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I recommend you to get a recent cdrtools (e.g. from
> > > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/)
> > >
> > > and install cdda2wav suid root.
> > >
> > > Then call:
> > >
> > > cdda2wav -e -N -B
> > >
> > > If everything is OK, then you will be able to listen to the music.
> > > Otherwise you see human readble error messages that point you to the
> > problem.
> > >
> > > Jörg
> >
> > OK, we are now getting somewhere, I did hear sound out of that, now
> > that is interesting, but how does this work -- does it not copy the
> > file or is it playing from the drive? I have cdcd and it thinks its
> > playing, bu I hear nothing. Also, I can't get mplayer to do anyting,
> > it thinks the url is wrong or something, so this is more complicated.
>
> cdda2wav does things as they should be done ;-)
>
> There are many possible reasons for your problems.
> A big problem is that on Linux _some_ SCSI commands may be send to drives
> without haveing root privileges and developers created GUI tools that
> did things that will not work on other platforms and that will not even
> work for all drives on Linux.
>
> If the applications that does not work does not tell you why, you are lost.
>
Well, cdcd is what I would like to use, it thinks it is playing, and
did work when I had a driv with that cable, but I hear no sound now.
I think it is reading the data off of the cd and I guess its not doing
the correct thing with it.
Can you recomend a console player with some features like rewind, fast
forward, pause and title lookup, etc -- I don't mind changing if I
need to change.
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John Covici
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