Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:32:32 +0100 From: "Markus Hoenicka" <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de> To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB CD drive won't play audio CDs Message-ID: <19680.25472.772340.805641@yeti.mininet> In-Reply-To: <201011141920.oAEJKLIB052206@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <19679.15010.448084.859704@yeti.mininet> <201011141920.oAEJKLIB052206@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
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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-cdrom-device /dev/cdX cdda:// Thanks for these explanations, I didn't realize my methods from the days of yore are so outdated!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
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