From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 8 16: 6:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.147.1.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA73737B405 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:06:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mediaone.net (test4.peter.Metro2000.NET [216.177.0.48]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fB907DQ20430; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 19:07:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C12AA9B.1060106@mediaone.net> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 19:04:43 -0500 From: David Loszewski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20011205 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nils Holland Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't mount audio cds References: <3C129869.4010605@mediaone.net> <3C129A4C.7050209@owt.com> <3C129D07.50009@mediaone.net> <20011209010017.C26619@tisys.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG can xmms do it or is that just for mp3's? If so how because I can't get it to work with a cd Dave Nils Holland wrote: >On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 06:06:47PM -0500, David Loszewski stood up and spoke: > >>well how do I play it if i can't mount it? I won't be able to see >>anything to play. >> > >To play an audio CD, you need a piece of software that can do that. >/usr/ports/audio should have a few CD player applications. > >You do not need to mount or otherwise work with an audio CD since the >computer technically has very little to do with playing them. The >components that "decode" the music on the CD are located in the CD-ROM >drive - what gets out of the drive is already real, analog audio (though >some CD-ROM drives also have digital output). Your computer only sends >instructions like "skip to track 2" or "Pause" to the CD-ROM drive. One of >the many CD player applications will do just that - without mounting the >CD, as has already been pointed out. > >Greetings >Nils > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message