Re: CD playing under GNOME - disappointing
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:31, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've not played a real audio CD on my PC for quite a long time (the
> drawback of ogg/mp3 :-). Now I tried it under GNOME and I'm disappointed:
>
> - gnome-cd produces only silence. When I press the "Play" button, the
> disk starts spinning loudly and the timer starts counting as it was
> playing, but no sound comes out. Also, when I change the CD drive in
> the preferences, it always says "No disk" even when the disk is
> already loaded. Pressing "Play" at least causes it to recognize the
> disk.
> - totem plays the CD fine, but it spins the disk at a high speed thus
> causing quite an annoying noise.
> - Same with mplayer, but mplayer tells it's actually extracting CDDA
> instead of telling the drive to just play the disk; that at least
> explains why the drive is so noisy. Maybe totem is doing the same?
> That would be unfortunate.
You've guessed it, it looks like the audio output of your CD player
isn't wired to your soundcard in you PC case, or that the volume of the
CD input is muted (check you mixer settings).
> In contrast, the good old workbone plays the CD fine and the disk
> also remains completely quiet during play.
What's "the good old workbone" ?
Xav
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