Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's
On 7/26/07, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kent Fredric wrote:
Does your CDROM drive have a dedicated headphone socket?, if so, plug
it in and see if you get any sound.
My personal suggestion : ditch kscd. My cd player/sound system works
fine, and kscd just thrashes doing the exact same thing you did ( I
removed my audio cable to ensure proper digital extraction... it just
didn't play ball )
snip
Amarok should also be able to play CD's digitally via Xine ( tested
here to work )
Any of you guys fans of animated flicks? Remember in the first Aladdin
movie when Aladdin dupes the genie into an extra wish and the genie
says, Boy do I feel stupid? Well that's me.
What can I say, I'm a creature of habit. I have always used kscd to
play audio CD's, but I'm a big fan of amaroK for playing my music
collection. However, amaroK worked fine to play an audio CD. I really
don't understand what the me, but it doesn't really matter. In the
end, I can do what I wanted to do!
Thanks everyone for their patience. Gentoo is not only the *best*
distribution IMHO, but the participants on the gentoo-user mailing list
are the *absolute best* - much better than some of the distro-specific
mailing lists that I participated in before I saw the light and
switched to Gentoo!
Thanks again!
Colleen
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In essence, KSCD by default uses analog mode, which transfers the
audio via an extra 4/3 wire cable directly to your sound card,
which uses 0 CPU to do so( it merely sends an 'ok, play this'
instruction like you would a stereo and the drive handles the rest).
For some unknown reason, KSCD's digital mode, which works by reading
the bitstream off the CD via good-ol 40/80 wire and processing it,
and then transporting it to the sound card via the CPU, is broken, its
not a hardware problem, just KSCD.
Normally KSCD would work fine, as most desktops come with the
appropriate sockets, and most cdrom drives provide the appropriate
cable, for it to just work.
But it would seem your laptop lacks the 4-wire connection bridging the
cdrom to the sound card, for whatever reason, and as KSCD is broken in
the digital department.
So the only solution lies in using some other form of digital
extractor, and in the case of amaroK .. this is most likely the XINE
library ( which is a bit more tested than KSCD most likely )
Hope you enjoy musicy goodness.
Amarok is incomparable to anything on earth :D
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Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's
On 7/25/07, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Dommett wrote:
Colleen Beamer wrote:
If anyone can provide me with direction, I would sure appreciate it.
Sorry I can't help you with your ALSA config. I've been stuck for
months now trying to enable SPDIF-out on my own laptop. However:
I notice from your first post on this topic that you're trying to play
audio CDs with kscd. You've already stated that music already ripped
from CD plays just fine.
Have you tried enabling Configure kscd - CD Player - CD-ROM Device:
Use direct digital playback ?
This option tells kscd to rip the CD on-the-fly and playback using the
standard PCM output on the sound card, rather than relying on the CD
audio lead and mixer settings which seem to be causing you so much
trouble.
Got all excited here, 'cause I hadn't done as you suggested and thought
that it might solve the problem. However, when I selected direct
digital playback, the CD appears to be playing - i.e. the Play button
changes to Pause, but the timer that advances as the track plays
remains at 0:00 and I still get no sound. With 'direct digital
playback' *not* selected, I get no sound, but the timer advances as the
track plays.
Regards,
Colleen
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Does your CDROM drive have a dedicated headphone socket?, if so, plug
it in and see if you get any sound.
My personal suggestion : ditch kscd. My cd player/sound system works
fine, and kscd just thrashes doing the exact same thing you did ( I
removed my audio cable to ensure proper digital extraction... it just
didn't play ball ).
if you have mplayer, try this:
mplayer cdda:// -cdrom-device /dev/hdWHATEVER
or
mplayer cddb:// -cdrom-device /dev/hdWHATEVER
if you dont have that, and have/want to use xine instead,
make sure setup/media-audio_cd.device is set and you should be away
laughing as soon as you hit that big 'cd button' on the UI or playlist
( i had a bit of delay... not sure why, but it worked )
Amarok should also be able to play CD's digitally via Xine ( tested
here to work )
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Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's
Kent Fredric wrote: Does your CDROM drive have a dedicated headphone socket?, if so, plug it in and see if you get any sound. My personal suggestion : ditch kscd. My cd player/sound system works fine, and kscd just thrashes doing the exact same thing you did ( I removed my audio cable to ensure proper digital extraction... it just didn't play ball ) snip Amarok should also be able to play CD's digitally via Xine ( tested here to work ) Any of you guys fans of animated flicks? Remember in the first Aladdin movie when Aladdin dupes the genie into an extra wish and the genie says, Boy do I feel stupid? Well that's me. What can I say, I'm a creature of habit. I have always used kscd to play audio CD's, but I'm a big fan of amaroK for playing my music collection. However, amaroK worked fine to play an audio CD. I really don't understand what the me, but it doesn't really matter. In the end, I can do what I wanted to do! Thanks everyone for their patience. Gentoo is not only the *best* distribution IMHO, but the participants on the gentoo-user mailing list are the *absolute best* - much better than some of the distro-specific mailing lists that I participated in before I saw the light and switched to Gentoo! Thanks again! Colleen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's
Hi guys, I know I'm like a bear with a thorn in it's paw, but this is driving me nuts. I've tried the suggestions provided in response to my posts on this list, but I still can't play audio CD's. I posted to the alsa-user list and got a response. I'm posting some of that here because although the responder has the exact same computer as I do, he uses Suse and I'm wondering if I've missed something or done something wrong when I compiled genkernel and thought maybe someone on the list might have an idea as to why there are discprepancies between what I'm getting and what the guy who responded to my alsa-user post got. snip This is my output Output from ' aplay -l' is: List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 (don't know if this is relevant) This is his output: Interesting. I do get: List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 snip This is from my laptop: On the *laptop* (XPS M1710), Kmix shows only the following items for output: Master PCM Capture Mux On the laptop, Kmix shows only Mic as Input This is his output from his Dell XPS M1710 laptop: I usually use alsamixer from the console, but invoking Kmix it shows: Output: Master, PCM, Capture Mux, Digital Input: Capture, Capture Mux, Digital Switch IEC958 and a dropdrow listbox 'Input Source' with Mic, Front Mic, Line I've tried editing /etc/modules.d/alsa the way it has been suggested in response to my posts here, but I still can get audio CD's to play. Obviously, the drive works or I wouldn't have been able to get Gentoo installed and an audio track ripped just fine from a CD and plays normally when I play it from my hard drive. Someone here also pointed me toward an alsa bug list and said to pay particular attention to comments by someone who goes by 'pshou', but I don't really understand what he was saying. If anyone can provide me with direction, I would sure appreciate it. Regards, Colleen . signature.asc Description: PGP signature - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's
Colleen Beamer wrote: If anyone can provide me with direction, I would sure appreciate it. Sorry I can't help you with your ALSA config. I've been stuck for months now trying to enable SPDIF-out on my own laptop. However: I notice from your first post on this topic that you're trying to play audio CDs with kscd. You've already stated that music already ripped from CD plays just fine. Have you tried enabling Configure kscd - CD Player - CD-ROM Device: Use direct digital playback ? This option tells kscd to rip the CD on-the-fly and playback using the standard PCM output on the sound card, rather than relying on the CD audio lead and mixer settings which seem to be causing you so much trouble. Cheers, Steve. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's
Steve Dommett wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: If anyone can provide me with direction, I would sure appreciate it. Sorry I can't help you with your ALSA config. I've been stuck for months now trying to enable SPDIF-out on my own laptop. However: I notice from your first post on this topic that you're trying to play audio CDs with kscd. You've already stated that music already ripped from CD plays just fine. Have you tried enabling Configure kscd - CD Player - CD-ROM Device: Use direct digital playback ? This option tells kscd to rip the CD on-the-fly and playback using the standard PCM output on the sound card, rather than relying on the CD audio lead and mixer settings which seem to be causing you so much trouble. Got all excited here, 'cause I hadn't done as you suggested and thought that it might solve the problem. However, when I selected direct digital playback, the CD appears to be playing - i.e. the Play button changes to Pause, but the timer that advances as the track plays remains at 0:00 and I still get no sound. With 'direct digital playback' *not* selected, I get no sound, but the timer advances as the track plays. Regards, Colleen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
