bpa;252927 Wrote: 
> mplayer will play a CD and I think CD playing works across all
> platforms. Using mplayer with SC has been proven with AlienBBC.
> 
> I know mplayer can be "told" to play a selected track - I'm not sure
> whether it will play a whole CD.
> 
> All that is needed is a small plugins that defines a protocol handler
> (e.g. cdrive:) and a parser to get pass the track number to mplayer
> (e.g. cddrive://1)
> 
> To SC it would behave like a stream and not a file and so would not be
> entered into the database.

Yep, that's probably the best way to go. Would it be possible to get
metadata from CDDB too?

Incidentally, I'm currently listening to Aerosmith using the CDDFS
method. It just works... :-)


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