From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 7 20:31:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC3E1065670 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:31:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0437B8FC1C for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:31:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 20234 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2009 20:31:15 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Feb 2009 20:31:15 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4815084A; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 15:31:12 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id D0DBA1CD97; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 15:31:11 -0500 (EST) To: Akenner References: <498DD2DE.803@comcast.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:31:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <498DD2DE.803@comcast.net> (Akenner's message of "Sat\, 07 Feb 2009 13\:28\:46 -0500") Message-ID: <44k582ng4w.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Playing audio CDs 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: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:31:16 -0000 Akenner writes: > I've been searching on the net for like an hour trying to see how to > play a CD on FreeBSD, and normally I'd have just tried mounting it, > being from the Linux world, but when I first checked to be sure of the > proper way, I found mostly info saying not to mount it at all. > > So now I'm not sure what is the right way to do it. On two machines > each having between 1 - 3 drives to play CDs from, I've tried just > loading a CD player app and hitting play, but it doesn't find the CD, > and on one machine there is only one drive so it can't be the wrong > one. > > None of the pages I found said it was OK to mount it, and so I'm a > little confused how you play CDs, and I've used cdplay as root to make > sure I had access since the one app said I couldn't access the CD > drive, and nothing has happened. > > How is the normal way of playing a regular audio CD in FreeBSD? See the entry in the FreeBSD FAQ titled "Why can I not mount an audio CD?" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#MOUNT-AUDIO-CD -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/