Re: No sound from CD, but timidity works
On Sunday 22 April 2001 05:29 pm, csj wrote:
> On Monday 23 April 2001 06:10, Stephen Boulet wrote:
> > When I use a cdplayer and start it, the disc spins up, and it even
> > identifies it correctly from the freedb database, but no sound
> > comes out.
> >
> > But when I use timidity to pay a midi file, the sound comes out
> > fine.
> >
> > What's happening? I'm using built in scsi-emulation on /dev/sr0.
>
> JUST wondering did you connect the audio cable on the CD writer to
> the soundcard? You can try connecting your headphones to the
> headphone jack on the writer's front panel (if it has one). Otherwise
> bring out your screw driver. Or you can try extracting the audio data
> using cdparanaoia, and then play the resulting wav file(s). It may
> also possible to pipe cdparanoia's output to a stream-capable wav
> player (though I haven't tried this myself).
Thanks! You called it right. I had the cable going to my cdrom on /dev/sr1
and not the cdrw on /dev/sr0.
-- Stephen
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