RE: audio cd on ultra 5
What software did you use to rip the cd to MP3's just curious.
Rich
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Walsh [mailto:rjw1@frontiernet.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:26 AM
> To: Mark T. Valites
> Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: audio cd on ultra 5
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:59:41AM -0500, Mark T. Valites wrote:
>
> > Today I stuck in an audio cd for the first time & wasn't able to
> > play it. I exited out E & gnome & logged back in & got an error
> > message about not having permission to open /dev/mixer. I can get
> > the cd to start spinning fine & the second counter to tick on fine
> > in any cd playing app, but no sound comes out. No luck as root
> > either.
>
> I'd like to hear this confirmed from other sources, but I think the
> problem is that the audio output on the drive is not connected to the
> sound hardware on the motherboard. It appears that the cs4231 chipset
> supports this, but I have never seen a stock Sun connected this way,
> and I've had trouble even finding motherboard jacks for it (SS5, U1,
> U10). You probably could get XMMS to play -- I think there's an
> option to extract the digital audio data and dump it to the sound
> hardware (effectively, ripping it to play it.) I gave up and just
> ripped all my CD's to MP3's, which is more flexible anyway.
>
> > Mark T. Valites
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>
> Bold man, putting all that in a public posting. :-) But since you
> did, "Howdy, neighbor!" -- I'm in Rochester.
>
> Later,
> Rob.
>
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