What software did you use to rip the cd to MP3's just curious. Rich
> -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Walsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:26 AM > To: Mark T. Valites > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: audio cd on ultra 5 > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:59:41AM -0500, Mark T. Valites wrote: > > > Today I stuck in an audio cd for the first time & wasn't able to > > play it. I exited out E & gnome & logged back in & got an error > > message about not having permission to open /dev/mixer. I can get > > the cd to start spinning fine & the second counter to tick on fine > > in any cd playing app, but no sound comes out. No luck as root > > either. > > I'd like to hear this confirmed from other sources, but I think the > problem is that the audio output on the drive is not connected to the > sound hardware on the motherboard. It appears that the cs4231 chipset > supports this, but I have never seen a stock Sun connected this way, > and I've had trouble even finding motherboard jacks for it (SS5, U1, > U10). You probably could get XMMS to play -- I think there's an > option to extract the digital audio data and dump it to the sound > hardware (effectively, ripping it to play it.) I gave up and just > ripped all my CD's to MP3's, which is more flexible anyway. > > > Mark T. Valites > > Unix Systems Analyst > > 1 College Circle - 124b1 South Hall > > SUNY Geneseo > > Geneseo, NY 14454 > > 585-245-5577 > > 585-259-3471 (Cell) > > 585-245-5579 (Fax) > > Bold man, putting all that in a public posting. :-) But since you > did, "Howdy, neighbor!" -- I'm in Rochester. > > Later, > Rob. >
