On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:31 +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> 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.
>
> In contrast, the good old workbone plays the CD fine and the disk
> also remains completely quiet during play.
Try Sound Juicer, version 2.12 onwards can play although it isn't
designed as a full-time player. I'd be interested if it was as noisy
as, or quieter, than Totem.
Also, do you have totem-xine or totem-gstreamer?
Ross
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