Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 all. I tried that too. It appears to play the CD, but no sound. It does output through the CDROM's headphone jack on my old Dell. I don't really want to, but I may have to open up the PC and muck around with the connection. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 media-sound/cdplay? Doesn't seem to have any dependencies at all. I tried that too. It appears to play the CD, but no sound. It does output through the CDROM's headphone jack on my old Dell. I don't really want to, but I may have to open up the PC and muck around with the connection. cdplay is sending output through the analog or digital line on the cdrom drive, to the soundcard. If there is not a line plugged into the sound card, then you will not hear sound. Many cd playing applications now will read the cd itself rather than just sending the play command to the drive. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 that cable on new computers that I build and it has always worked fine for me. Strictly speaking you don't need it, it will work just as well via ATAPI/SCSI. It's just so convenient that a) you have a separate volume control for the CD input on soundcards and b) playing a CD takes nothing more than a handful of commands (and probably one a second or so to update the play timer), the CD-ROM does everything else on its own. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpW88Osq8DdD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp6mJW2B7NVk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 neither process it using the CPU, the CD drive will do all the work and send output directly to the soundcard, the volume manager of the soundcard with the CD audio label will work and some other benefits. But that`s just me. I want my hardware to do the stuff it should. With a cable, you will (at least with some/most sound cards) have a digital-analog conversion in the drive, an analog-digital conversion in the sound card, and another digital-analog conversion on output from the sound card. With digital extraction you will just have the last digital-analog conversion. Guess what sounds best. A third option: most drives have a digital output connector, and most sound cards have a digital input connector. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 all applications, won`t send data using the system bus neither process it using the CPU, the CD drive will do all the work and send output directly to the soundcard, the volume manager of the soundcard with the CD audio label will work and some other benefits. But that`s just me. I want my hardware to do the stuff it should. With a cable, you will (at least with some/most sound cards) have a digital-analog conversion in the drive, an analog-digital conversion in the sound card, and another digital-analog conversion on output from the sound card. With digital extraction you will just have the last digital-analog conversion. Guess what sounds best. A third option: most drives have a digital output connector, and most sound cards have a digital input connector. -- Wrong. Sound is by nature analog. The soundcard does nothing, as the CD drive reads the digital audio and the DAC of the CD drive itself converts it to analog, passing it directly to the soundcard, that send it right to the speakers with a little amp or not. As the DAC of the CD drive has nothing to do anyway, that is hardware doying what it should. Check it: http://img.tfd.com/cde/DIGAUDEX.GIF If you get the data digitally, you CD drive sends it directly, over the system bus/digital cable, and your CPU/Soundcard PU must convert it to analog audio (because your speakers still can't do it (at least mine), with most modern boards and on-board audio cards, the soundcard uses the CPU, so, yes, it uses a few cycles. I really don't care how much, all I can say is that there's one more Interruption Request, and I like my FPS at top. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 to Digital audio extraction, along with configuring/checking your drive. In portage they are called: media-plugins/xmms-cdaudio = CD Audio Player and media-plugins/xmms-cdread = AudioCD Reader emerge one of them, restart xmms, and you're set ;) Neither of them will spin up the CD when I tell xmms to play the AudioCD. cdaudio does spin the CD and properly list the tracks and their lengths when I select Check drive. Any ideas? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 kscd These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] kde-base/kde-env-3-r4 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-libs/libpcre-6.3 -doc 552 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 -cups -debug -doc -examples -firebird +gif -immqt -immqt-bc -ipv6 -mysql -nas -odbc +opengl -postgres -sqlite -xinerama 14,101 kB [ebuild N] app-admin/gamin-0.1.7 -debug -doc 529 kB [ebuild N] kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.3-r1 +alsa -arts -cups -debug -doc -jpeg2k -kdeenablefinal -kerberos -openexr -spell -ssl +tiff -xinerama -zeroconf 16,482 kB [ebuild N] kde-base/libkcddb-3.4.3 -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama 5,366 kB [ebuild N] kde-base/kscd-3.4.3 -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama 0 kB Total size of downloads: 37,032 kB [m3000][root][~] emerge -pv amarok These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] dev-libs/libpcre-6.3 -doc 552 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 -cups -debug -doc -examples -firebird +gif -immqt -immqt-bc -ipv6 -mysql -nas -odbc +opengl -postgres -sqlite -xinerama 14,101 kB [ebuild N] kde-base/kde-env-3-r4 0 kB [ebuild N] app-admin/gamin-0.1.7 -debug -doc 529 kB [ebuild N] kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.3-r1 +alsa -arts -cups -debug -doc -jpeg2k -kdeenablefinal -kerberos -openexr -spell -ssl +tiff -xinerama -zeroconf 16,482 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/taglib-1.4 -debug 715 kB [ebuild N] media-sound/amarok-1.3.8 -arts -debug +flac -gstreamer -kde +mp3 -musicbrainz -mysql -noamazon +opengl -postgres -visualization +vorbis -xine -xinerama -xmms 8,523 kB Total size of downloads: 40,905 kB -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 XMMS docs aren't really helpful. Do I need an additional plug-in? mplayer is worse. mplayer /dev/cdrom tries to play a file by that name. I emerged cdplay and cdplay -c -v gets the CD spinning and the output indicates that it is playing, but I get no sound. I have unmuted the CD player and set its volume via alsactl. One additional complication is that there is no headphone jack near the CD tray, so I assume I have to go via the soundcard. Has your CD player been connected with your sound card? If not, I think you won't hear any sound. You don't need a cable from the CD player to the sound card with xmms: Options - Preferences - Audio I/O Plugins - Audio CD Reader - Configure - Output - Read Digital CD Audio My main problem seems to be that (with one exception) xmms doesn't even get the CD spinning. Here's what I've checked so far... - 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 motions of playing the cdrom. The cdrom spins, and cdplay lists each track as it's played... but there is no sound. - /dev/cdrom is correctly symlinked to /dev/hda - I've tried both the xmms-cdaudio and xmms-cdread plugins. xmms-cdaudio has a Check CD drive option. When I click it, the cdrom spins, and I get a list of tracks which matches the output I get from cdplay --listtracks. But when I tell xmms to play AudioCD, it just sists there. The CD does not spin at all. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 motions of
playing the cdrom. The cdrom spins, and cdplay lists each track as
it's played... but there is no sound.
- /dev/cdrom is correctly symlinked to /dev/hda
- I've tried both the xmms-cdaudio and xmms-cdread plugins.
xmms-cdaudio has a Check CD drive option. When I click it, the
cdrom spins, and I get a list of tracks which matches the output I
get from cdplay --listtracks.
This might be an overkill, but have you tried mplayer? If you already
have it installed, I think mplayer cdda://{tracknumber} would work,
and if I remember correctly, mplayer would read the digital audio,
rather than use the DAC in the CDROM.
W
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Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 on the cdrom. cdplay -c -v goes through the motions of
playing the cdrom. The cdrom spins, and cdplay lists each
track as
it's played... but there is no sound.
- /dev/cdrom is correctly symlinked to /dev/hda
- I've tried both the xmms-cdaudio and xmms-cdread plugins.
xmms-cdaudio has a Check CD drive option. When I click it, the
cdrom spins, and I get a list of tracks which matches the
output I
get from cdplay --listtracks.
This might be an overkill, but have you tried mplayer? If you already
have it installed, I think mplayer cdda://{tracknumber} would work,
and if I remember correctly, mplayer would read the digital audio,
rather than use the DAC in the CDROM.
maybe i missed part of the thread, but does it have to be graphical?
There are quite a few curses or command-line cd/mp3 players...
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[gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 play a file by that name. I emerged cdplay and cdplay -c -v gets the CD spinning and the output indicates that it is playing, but I get no sound. I have unmuted the CD player and set its volume via alsactl. One additional complication is that there is no headphone jack near the CD tray, so I assume I have to go via the soundcard. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 play a file by that name. I emerged cdplay and cdplay -c -v gets the CD spinning and the output indicates that it is playing, but I get no sound. I have unmuted the CD player and set its volume via alsactl. One additional complication is that there is no headphone jack near the CD tray, so I assume I have to go via the soundcard. Has your CD player been connected with your sound card? If not, I think you won't hear any sound. Istvan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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? mplayer is worse. mplayer /dev/cdrom tries to play a file by that name. I emerged cdplay and cdplay -c -v gets the CD spinning and the output indicates that it is playing, but I get no sound. I have unmuted the CD player and set its volume via alsactl. One additional complication is that there is no headphone jack near the CD tray, so I assume I have to go via the soundcard. Has your CD player been connected with your sound card? If not, I think you won't hear any sound. 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. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
-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. The other o/s can send audio to the soundcard via the system bus. Anybody knows if and when is this going to happen on the good o/s too? 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 that cable on new computers that I build and it has always worked fine for me. To the original poster: Are you sure you are in the cdrom group? Are you sure you have a /dev/cdrom node? Any different outcome if you do mplayer /dev/hdc? - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff University of Minnesota -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEX1fpFN7pD9kMi/URAm09AJ9VCTBVUq1JnEYBwvAUesuyNJJ+8wCfV5U2 18BfVsPxYDIoLkeDBGkOU7A= =GgtJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 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 knows if and when is this going to happen on the good o/s too? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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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 send audio to the soundcard via the system bus. Anybody knows if and when is this going to happen on the good o/s too? About 5 years ago :-) -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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? mplayer is worse. mplayer /dev/cdrom tries to play a file by that name. I emerged cdplay and cdplay -c -v gets the CD spinning and the output indicates that it is playing, but I get no sound. I have unmuted the CD player and set its volume via alsactl. One additional complication is that there is no headphone jack near the CD tray, so I assume I have to go via the soundcard. Has your CD player been connected with your sound card? If not, I think you won't hear any sound. You don't need a cable from the CD player to the sound card with xmms: Options - Preferences - Audio I/O Plugins - Audio CD Reader - Configure - Output - Read Digital CD Audio -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 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 play a file by that name. I emerged cdplay and cdplay -c -v gets the CD spinning and the output indicates that it is playing, but I get no sound. I have unmuted the CD player and set its volume via alsactl. One additional complication is that there is no headphone jack near the CD tray, so I assume I have to go via the soundcard. Has your CD player been connected with your sound card? If not, I think you won't hear any sound. 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. no, he is not. You don't need the audio-cable to hear music from a cd - just the right application ;) like: kscd amarok 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 neither process it using the CPU, the CD drive will do all the work and send output directly to the soundcard, the volume manager of the soundcard with the CD audio label will work and some other benefits. But that`s just me. I want my hardware to do the stuff it should. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 speakers. no, he is not. You don't need the audio-cable to hear music from a cd - just the right application ;) like: kscd amarok Yeah but then your CPU is doing a lot of work. A cable for 10c seems cheaper than lots of CPU cycles. Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
=== 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-eating during CDDA playing back. Porbably, for i286? ;-) And, after all, card's DAC is under control and there is a (limited) way to get more clean sound: CD-drives have few-cent-cost poor DACs. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 speakers. The other o/s can send audio to the soundcard via the system bus. Anybody knows if and when is this going to happen on the good o/s too? 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 that cable on new computers that I build and it has always worked fine for me. No you do not. XMMS can use audio out (ie plug the CDROM Audio cable into the soundcard) or DAE (Digital audio extraction), where it reads the cdrom drive as if its raw data, and does the conversion to sound in software. This results in the audio over bus that the original poster pointed out. To do this. you need to install an xmms-plugin (they did not come with my xmms version). There are two of them in portage to my knowledge: AudioCD Reader : libcdread.so CD Audio Player : libcdaudio.so Out of the two, I use CD Audio Player, because it has more features, such as Multiple CD-ROM support. This allows me to plugin in external CD-ROM's (such as USB CD-ROMS, and SCSI CD-ROMs/CD changers) and use them to play audio CD's 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 to Digital audio extraction, along with configuring/checking your drive. In portage they are called: media-plugins/xmms-cdaudio = CD Audio Player and media-plugins/xmms-cdread = AudioCD Reader emerge one of them, restart xmms, and you're set ;) Happy listening! -- http://ziva-vatra.dnsalias.com/~ognen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
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 alsa output, and send the data to the card. Unless some kind of rate conversion is required (which would be very surprising), the CPU should be doing almost nothing. There will be a small amount of IO bandwidth used, but nothing significant for a modern computer. The display updates for something like a visualizer are much more taxing, IMO. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
