From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 20:53:18 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E069106566C for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:53:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 441C98FC12 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:53:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 29633 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2010 20:53:17 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Sep 2010 20:53:17 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 7581E50822; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:53:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Ryan Coleman References: <20100917140723.ad984afa.freebsd@edvax.de> <4C93ADB4.6020000@gmail.com> <1D16D2D4-D906-4678-9AA1-A8E182F04F49@cwis.biz> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:53:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1D16D2D4-D906-4678-9AA1-A8E182F04F49@cwis.biz> (Ryan Coleman's message of "Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:36:01 -0500") Message-ID: <44eicshz2b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Joshua Isom , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plextor PX-870A drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:53:18 -0000 Ryan Coleman writes: > On Sep 17, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Joshua Isom wrote: > >> On 9/17/2010 7:24 AM, Robert Ames wrote: >>> >>> It claims to be able to play audio CDs. >>> >> >> There's two things I can think of. With cdcontrol on a cd-rw drive I have, it needs the cd audio cable hooked up from the drive to the motherboard or else it's silent. My dvd-rw drive doesn't have that port but I haven't tested audio cd's in it. It's possible the "does play audio cd's" is about reading the format rather than playing, and I believe cdcontrol tells the drive to play instead of the OS playing it. You could try another media player to see if it'll play the disc or if you can rip the tracks off. > > So you should plug headphones into the front? If there's a headphone jack on the front of the *drive*, then yes, that will probably work. What was intended, though, was probably to suggest that instead of cdcontrol(1), you install and try a cd playing program that supports "digital extraction". Most programs in ports/audio that can play CDs at all will be able to handle this.