Re: no audio cds
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 06:59:35 -0500
Joe Paxton <joepa@1st.net> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Running Debian Woody on a Dell Inspiron 2650c, I am able to read data
> cds (the installation cd, for example), but I am unable to read (play)
> audio cds. I am not trying to mount the audio cd (I realize that this
> is not needed), but rather, when I put an audio cd in the drive, and
> do 'cd/cdrom' and then 'ls' I see nothing in the drive (and so when I
> try to add that directory to the XMMS playlist, for example, nothing
> is added).
>
/cdrom is essentially an empty directory untill you mount a filesystem
into it. That being said, an audio cd is not necessarily a filesystem
(I have no idea why mounting it would be any different, this is probably
something for somebody with a little more experience).
So you are right, you don't need to mount it, what you need to do is
access your cd directly, either by using a cd playing program that
streams the audio to your soundcard (requires a cable to be connected
between your soundcard and cdrom, not that common anymore nowadays)
or something like xmms that can play audio cds. In the case of xmms
you need a special package xmms-cdread which will do this.
I don't use it, but I'm sure you'll be able to figure it out...
greets,
Wim
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