On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 05:23:34PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Haines Brown (12024-01-08):
> > I find that often (such as wiki.debian.org/CDDVD) I'm told to mount
Understood about not mounting CDROM disks. Confused music with data
disks
> > The mplayer command $ mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/sr0 cdda:// works. On
> > my system it relies on alsa. However, about every 15 seconds the the
> > process stops for about one second ane the drive LED flashes on. In
> > the mplayer configuration I do D not see anything about buffer size.
>
> Search for “cache” in the man page.
Thanks! That solved my problem. I find cache (enable/disable) and
cache size (cache).
In /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf there is a cache section. I changed the
line
# cache = 8192
to
cache = 16384
and that seems to have fixed the buffer problem.
> > To simplify my life, I created a ~/scripts/play file. It is in my
> > PATH. The file has this content:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > mplayer /dev/sr0 cdda://
> >
> > exit 0
> >
> > But the $ play command only returns the aplay -help info. Why won't
> > the script work?
>
> You forgot the “-cdrom-device” option. And judging from what you are
> saying you need to learn how $PATH works.
The scripts folder is in my path. I holds many commands I regularly
use.
Turns out that the "play" command was earlier taken by another
application. So I changed the command from play to Play, and now it
works without the cache problem. The Play command is:
mplayer /dev/sr0 cdda://
The option -cdrom-device is default and so is optional. Mplayer works
fine without it.
> But unless you cannot spare 60 megaoctets somewhere, save yourself a lot
> of trouble: just run cdparanoia -B then opusenc and put back the audio
> CD at the back of the shelf where it belongs.
where can find an inexpensive drive to hold about 1000 cds and find
the time do all the converting? ㋡
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas George
>
--
Haines Brown
