Re: Command line audio and CD player?
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 10:47:46AM -0700, David E. Fox wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:46:14 +0200
> Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Any command line tool that plays both?
>
> I can't think of any specifically that do the job.
>
> On the other hand, one would think that 'mplayer' should be do it, but
> several attempts to access the cd device (/dev/cdrom, or /dev/hdc)
> failed here. 'mplayer vcd://1' managed to read the TOC and it acted
> like it was going to work (disc accesses) but it just stops. I really
> didn't expect that to work, because I have an audio CD in the drive,
> but not a video cd. Still, one would guess that if there's any command
> like player that should be able to do the job, it should be mplayer,
> simply because it seems to be able to play anything, and audio CD
> playback should be simple enough, relative to the other stuff that
> mplayer can do.
>
If it isn't a video CD, try cdda:// and make sure /dev/cdrom is a
symbolic link to your cd player.
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