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Re: Newbie problems



I installed xmms-cdread but it still refuses to play. It wil say " unknown / 
audio cd" in the read out but nothing will happen. I've tried every single 
option. but it's all the same.

On Wednesday 14 May 2003 01:37 pm, David M. Cooke wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:05:56AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote:
> > Hmm when i put in an audio CD and open KsCD it refuses to play, could it
> > have anything to do with the fact hat i disabled artsd at startsup? since
> > it gave me this error?
>
> On the ibook2, there is no direct analog connection between the CDROM
> and the sound hardware (on a PC, say, there is a four-wire cable running
> from the CDROM to the sound card). You'll have to use something that
> reads the CD digitially, such as xmms-cdread. AFAIK, that's the only
> thing in Debian that will do this (unless you cobble something together
> with cdda2wav).
>
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> |David M. Cooke                     
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Jule Slootbeek
jslootbeek@clarku.edu



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