Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-14 Thread stupendoussteve
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:20:56PM +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote > > Hi Walter, > > on Tuesday, 2006-05-09 at 20:34:29, you wrote: > > > My idea of "the right application" doesn't install 75% of KDE or > > > GNOME... > > > > Good point! :) What about m

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:20:56PM +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote > Hi Walter, > on Tuesday, 2006-05-09 at 20:34:29, you wrote: > > My idea of "the right application" doesn't install 75% of KDE or GNOME... > > Good point! :) What about media-sound/cdplay? Doesn't seem to have any > dependencies at

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-11 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Walter, on Tuesday, 2006-05-09 at 20:34:29, you wrote: > My idea of "the right application" doesn't install 75% of KDE or GNOME... Good point! :) What about media-sound/cdplay? Doesn't seem to have any dependencies at all. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages.

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-11 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Jeremy, on Monday, 2006-05-08 at 09:38:34, you wrote: > I don't think you need that silly cable. My understanding was that the > audio cable connected to you sound card was for when you wanted to > listen to the cd and your computer was in "low-power mode" Either way, I > have stopped installing

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread John Jolet
On May 9, 2006, at 8:34 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:35:04PM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: - alsamixer CD unmuted and volume set to 77 - I am a member of audio and cdrom groups - the "cdplay" program sees the number of tracks and and their lengths o

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:35:04PM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: > - alsamixer CD unmuted and volume set to 77 > - I am a member of audio and cdrom groups > - the "cdplay" program sees the number of tracks and and their > lengths on the cdrom. "cdplay -c -v" goes through the

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:52:07PM +0200, Harald Arnesen wrote > Stef?n Istv?n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > h?tf? 08 m?jus 2006 11.32 d?tummal Walter Dnes ezt ?rta: > >> I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live > >> audio CDs (not a data CD with mp3 files). The X

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:34:57PM +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote > You don't need the audio-cable to hear music from a cd - just the right > application ;) > > like: > kscd > amarok My idea of "the right application" doesn't install 75% of KDE or GNOME... [m3000][root][~] emerge -pv k

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:24:22PM +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote > Note that in both drivers, you need to state you want to use DAE > rather then the old analog method (this is due to the fact that not > all CD-ROM's have good DAE capabilities). Under "CD Audio Player", > you need to set "Play mode

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/9/06, Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You don't need the audio-cable to hear music from a cd - just the right >> application ;) > > Oh yeah, you really don`t need the cable, it just makes things easier, > because it will work with a

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Harald Arnesen
"Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You don't need the audio-cable to hear music from a cd - just the right >> application ;) > > Oh yeah, you really don`t need the cable, it just makes things easier, > because it will work with all applications, won`t send data using the > system bus

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/8/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah but then your CPU is doing a lot of work. A cable for 10c seems cheaper than lots of CPU cycles. I wouldnt' say a _lot_ of CPU cycles. CDDA is just uncompressed 16-bit 44khz 2-channel audio samples. All the app has to do is configure an als

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
On Monday 08 May 2006 15:38, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Mattias Merilai wrote: > > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >> Stéfan is right, you need an analog audio cable connecting your CD > >> drive to your soundcard (or, if your soundcard support it, a digital > >> one). Else the drive can't send audio to your s

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Monday 08 May 2006 20:19, Uwe Thiem wrote: === On 08 May 2006 16:34, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Yeah but then your CPU is doing a lot of work. A cable for 10c seems cheaper than lots of CPU cycles. Uwe === I didn't noticed any CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 May 2006 16:34, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Monday 08 May 2006 16:04, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > Stéfan is right, you need an analog audio cable connecting your CD > > drive to your soundcard (or, if your soundcard support it, a digital > > one). Else the drive can't send audio to your

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/8/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 16:04, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 5/8/06, Stefán István <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hétfő 08 május 2006 11.32 dátummal Walter Dnes ezt írta: > > > I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Harald Arnesen
Stefán István <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hétfő 08 május 2006 11.32 dátummal Walter Dnes ezt írta: >> I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live >> audio CDs (not a data CD with mp3 files). The XMMS docs aren't really >> helpful. Do I need an additional plug-in? mpl

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2006-05-08 Thread Harald Arnesen
Mattias Merilai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >> Stéfan is right, you need an analog audio cable connecting your CD >> drive to your soundcard (or, if your soundcard support it, a digital >> one). Else the drive can't send audio to your speakers. > > "The other o/s" can se

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 08 May 2006 16:04, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 5/8/06, Stefán István <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hétfő 08 május 2006 11.32 dátummal Walter Dnes ezt írta: > > > I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live > > > audio CDs (not a data CD with mp3 files). The XMM

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
It's strange question ;-) XMMS does it (just activate cdda plugin). XMMS clones does it. Amarok does it too (at least SVN version - I don't use Amarok's official releases). === On Monday 08 May 2006 18:17, Mattias Merilai wrote: === Daniel da Veiga wrote: > Stéfan is right, you need an an

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mattias Merilai wrote: > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >> Stéfan is right, you need an analog audio cable connecting your CD >> drive to your soundcard (or, if your soundcard support it, a digital >> one). Else the drive can't send audio to your speakers.

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Mattias Merilai
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Stéfan is right, you need an analog audio cable connecting your CD drive to your soundcard (or, if your soundcard support it, a digital one). Else the drive can't send audio to your speakers. "The other o/s" can send audio to the soundcard via the system bus. Anybody kn

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/8/06, Stefán István <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hétfő 08 május 2006 11.32 dátummal Walter Dnes ezt írta: > I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live > audio CDs (not a data CD with mp3 files). The XMMS docs aren't really > helpful. Do I need an additional plug-in

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Stefán István
hétfő 08 május 2006 11.32 dátummal Walter Dnes ezt írta: > I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live > audio CDs (not a data CD with mp3 files). The XMMS docs aren't really > helpful. Do I need an additional plug-in? mplayer is worse. > "mplayer /dev/cdrom" tries to p