Re: Audio CDs on Titanium G4 Powerbook
Michael Schmitz writes:
> > > Does anyone have a moment to explay exactly why this makes it work?
> >
> > I think the reason is that there is no IDE cdrom driver. there are,
>
> BS. IDE CDROM drivers have been around for like three or four years in the
> Linux kernel. That's approximately forever. ide-cd.c has the ollowing
> changelog comment: 1.00 Oct 31, 1994 -- Initial version. That's six and a
> half year even, with audio support in there from the beginning. No IDE
> CDROM driver? Think again.
I really cant believe how pedantic and belligerent people are on this
list. I see requests all the time for 'how do i get audio cds working
on my Cube/Titanium PB'? I managed to figure it out, maybe in a
roundabout way, post my results along with a half-assed, wrong
speculation, and everyone is so quick to point out my mistake.
obviously there is a driver for IDE cdroms, since i can mount data
disks fine. OK, THANK YOU, i will go to my grave knowing how
intelligent people on the list are and how stupid i am, and i feel so
much better about that.
> If you forget that cable, no sound. Apple 'forgot' that cabling at least
> on the cubes. Maybe also on the new PBs. I don't own such a box. On the
> older models (up to Pismo IIRC) you can play audio CDs fine. Someone in
> the know can probably confirm or deny my speculation.
this is exactly the point. if the analog out on the CDROM is there,
it's trivial. if not, you need software that can read the audio
data off the disk and pump it into the sound system. for whatever
reason, i could not convince cdparanoia, cdda2wav or xmms's audio CD
reader to grab the audio off of the disk until i tricked them into
thinking the cdrom was a scsi device.
rob
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