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Subject: Re: USB CD drive won't play audio CDs
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on 14/11/2010 19:13 Markus Hoenicka said the following:
> Next, I've plugged this drive into yet another laptop running Debian
> Linux. The drive was recognized in an instant, and I was able to play
> audio CDs. This means that the external CD drive is not defective.

Good.

> I know that FreeBSD isn't the multimedia OS of choice,

But FreeBSD is _the_ multimedia OS of choice.  What other options are out there?

> but is there a
> general problem reading audio CDs from USB drives?

Probably not, but perhaps.

> Is there a chance
> that this problem is drive-specific?

Could be, but shouldn't be.

-- 
Andriy Gapon