On 4/2/08, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Mark Carlson wrote: > > Sounds like one of two things to me: > > 1) CD ROM drive's audio cable is not hooked up to the internal sound card > > > It doesn't even get to the point of playing the tracks...it seems to be having > trouble even reading the tracks
If by 'seems' you mean 'the drive makes a funny noise', don't trust that very far for troubleshooting. Different drives sound differently when playing CD Audio tracks. <snip> > > And as a far shot, I suppose it could be the old problem of PEBKAC > > where you are trying to play an audio CD that is mounted (is this > > still a problem?) but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt there. > > > Maybe, but I don't think that's the problem. I can play DVDs just fine. They > would mount up the same way, wouldn't they? > No. Audio from DVDs comes digitally, often in more than the two channels the CD Audio cable is hooked up. <snip> > > What happens > > when you try to rip the CD using a recently developed audio package? > > > Same problem with grip, and KAudioCreator. I think that's all I have. Assuming those use cdparanoia, it should be using CDDA... so perhaps something is up with the drive. Can you try it under Windows? > > Do you get usable files? > grip will start ripping and get a few bites in and then stop... Ouch... do CD-ROMs work? -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
