Re: Audio CDs
another way to do this..
chmod /dev/cdrom (and it's link) and /dev/dsp to 777
put the cd in, press play on your favorite cd player. audio cds don't
need to be mounted to play.
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Monday 04 June 2001 06:12 am, Robert Mosher wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Not too long ago I installed Debian2.2r2 on my computer. Since then I have
> > slowly been getting things the way I want them. One thing I have yet to
> > do, and would appreciate any help on, is playing (mounting) Audio CDs.
> >
> > I don't know if this will make a difference, but I have run 'apt-get
> > upgrade' since release 3.
> >
> > I've read about cdfs for mounting audio CDs, but that requires kernel
> > 2.4.x. Will I need to upgrade my kernel, and if so, how?
> >
> > Also, I noticed when browsing through the available packages that there
> > are several CD players. I'm assuming this means I can play CDs somehow,
> > without too much trouble (relatively speaking), since it would be
> > pointless to include these packages if you can't.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rob Mosher
>
> What you probably need to do is add yourself to the appropriate groups.
> There's an audio group and a cdrom group and if your user is a member of both
> (I'm not totally sure about the cdrom one, but definitely the audio) then you
> should be able to play CD's. If you can't hear a sound, then it's probably a
> mixer issue and you can download a mixer program to mess with your sound
> levels.
>
> Once you've added yourself to the group just fire up a CD player and it
> should work. CD audio is one of the easiest things to get setup generally.
>
> - David Nusinow
> krmt1984@ucla.edu
>
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