From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 14 22:33:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA52C106566B for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:33:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de) Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C16A8FC13 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:33:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [93.135.134.145] (helo=yeti.mininet) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1PHl8e-0004lO-N2; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:33:32 +0100 X-Mailer: emacs 23.1.1 (via feedmail 8 I); VM 8.0.14 under 23.1.1 (i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) From: "Markus Hoenicka" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19680.25472.772340.805641@yeti.mininet> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:32:32 +0100 To: Juergen Lock In-Reply-To: <201011141920.oAEJKLIB052206@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <19679.15010.448084.859704@yeti.mininet> <201011141920.oAEJKLIB052206@triton8.kn-bremen.de> X-Df-Sender: 472582 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB CD drive won't play audio CDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:33:34 -0000 Hi fellow geek :-) Juergen Lock writes: > In your other post you talk about testing audio playback using > cdcontrol play... the problem with that is it depends on a > drive's internal audio hw, whose output may not be connected (likely > a headphone jack in case of an external drive) or it may even be > nonexistant as I suspect is the case with your drive because of > the errors you get. The more `modern' way to play audio cds is > to use digital audio extraction (dae) over the ata/usb/scsi bus > and play that using the computer's own soundcard, I usually test > that via mplayer whose port I build with the cdparanoia OPTION: > > mplayer -cache 8192 -cdrom-device /dev/cdX cdda:// Thanks for these explanations, I didn't realize my methods from the days of yore are so outdated! cdparanoia and mplayer work out of the box as long as the /dev/cd0 permissions are properly set (which I had done already). > (And I'm sure you can find other audio players in ports that can > do dae, I just usually rip audio cds instead of playing them > directly.) > This is probably the way to go, given the current HDD sizes. This way I won't have to haul the CD drive, which is a good thing anyway. Thanks a lot for your help Markus -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38