From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 25 20:33:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F2316A41C for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 20:33:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4AED43D53 for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 20:33:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C4A7C937FF for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 16:33:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Sasl-enc: JcoXLgJt79lCAmXyTPHUozZc+ebSLModjQxSJsnfbZNg 1117053198 Received: from gumby.localhost (dsl-80-41-66-192.access.as9105.com [80.41.66.192]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 664FD56F785 for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 16:33:18 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 21:33:18 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200505251301.37226.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200505251301.37226.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505252133.19096.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: Playing Music CD's X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 20:33:23 -0000 On Wednesday 25 May 2005 04:01, Warren wrote: > I have a lot of music cd's that i have baught over the years and went to > play them today, but couldnt mount my /cdrom drive. > > How do i go about playing music cd's ? I have FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and Xmms > installed. Go to Xmms preferences and configure the "cd audio player" plugin. There you can set the cd device and an associated directory. Even though you don't need to mount audio cds, in xmms you play a cd by playing this directory as if it were a directory of audio files. It makes sense to make it the same as your mountpoint. Note that there are two ways to play CDs, one is via the direct link between the drive and the sound-card, the other is to read the tracks of the disk and play them like files. Basic CD player apps only use the former, but more sophisticated players like xmms can do either. I mention this because if you dont have that wire fitted, you will need to switch the xmms cd plugin to "digital audio extraction".