On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:40:26PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > > I tried to solve this problem this week as well. It seems that it's not > possible to play audio CDs in KDE (through arts) on NewWorld ppc machines. > > KsCD doesn't actually read the CD data, but controls the track movement and > relies on the CD/soundcard direct connection (which doesn't exist on NewWorld > macs). So it's silence. (See KDE bug #44216, and vote on it!) > > It seems that the only GUI music player to support reading the data from the > CD itself is xmms. (Install the xmms-cdread module and activate it in xmms.) > However, while there is an xmmsarts package as well, it wasn't written with > endian issues in mind. So trying to use it ends up with white noise. > > Actually, there is a workaround to the xmmsarts problem. Call xmms with the > artsdsp program, like so: > > $ artsdsp xmms > > Then configure xmms to use the normal OSS output. > > Also, supposedly noatun supports cd playing as well. Type in > "audiocd:/dev/cdrom" in the file selection dialog. It seems to want to rip > all the tracks before playing though. > > But, there is no clean way to play audio CDs with arts. > > Frank
I'll just mention my command-line solution: #!/bin/sh cdda2wav -C little -t 1+`cdir | tail -1 | sed 's/^..[^ ]* *//'` -D /dev/cdrom -N -e -d0 -I cooked_ioctl -q & -C little prevents cdda2wav from trying to decide the endianness of the CD (all commercial CDs I've tried are little-endian. The cdir phrase looks up how many tracks there are. It doesn't work right if there are data tracks. At least, it works. And I control volume with aumix (both internal and external). -- "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what we should do with software engineers. They put the designer under the bridge, and then they marched over it." -- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
