On 12-Dec-01, andrew cooke wrote:

> But can't the cd player stream data from the CD and run it through the
> card's DAC? If I've got an expensive audio card I don't want to be
> listening to music through the scratty DACs that come with my OEM CD
> reader. Is there a suitable program for doing this, I do I need to
> grab a CD to disk and then play it from there?!

Use cdparanoia - it'll happily grab in WAV format to stdout, and you can
pipe that through aplay.  Just write a simple script to do it.

(There are probably applications which do with using libparanoia and
 actually have a nice GUI, but I admit I haven't looked.)
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