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Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

Alan J. Greenberger wrote:

AG,

Instructions were for Lenny / KDE3.  I don't have a Squeeze system.  If
it is nowhere on the GUI, then all I can suggest is a possible
workaround:

Exit kscd.  On KDE3, just hitting the X in the upper right hand corner
just gets rid of the GUI, but it still is running and shows on the
toolbar.  You have to right click the toolbar icon and then really exit.
Then try editing ~/.kde/share/config/kscdrc.  Under
[GENERAL]
put a line
DigitalPlayback=true

I recently got a new SATA DVD drive and was surprised to find that they
cost reduced away the analog output on the back, so I have to run it
this way.

Alan

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, AG wrote:


Alan Greenberger wrote:
unable to read any CD in the SATA drive. KSCD has become hug and ugly and also doesn't play the CD although can recognise the tracks. 




Try:
kscd / Extras / Configure KsCD / Use direct digital playback
                                 presumably: alsa




Alan
Ta for the tip. When I call up KsCD I only have configure which then only gives "general" and "appearance". General is unhelpful - simply gives me the option of ejecting the CD when it is finished and appearance is simply that ... configure the appareance.
As regards KsCD, what I meant by huge is the GUI is so ugly (called melon or something?) and I'll be a monkey's if I can figure out a different GUI for it. I liked the old, smaller GUI before KDE did their overhaul with the 4.* version. I see in the KsCD help file it discusses all of these options (such as "extras") but my GUI doesn't show these at all.
Any idea on how this can be rectified? I've searched out config files, but can't see anything connected to this. 

I'm using an up-to-date Squeeze.

Cheers

AG




Hi Alan

Damn I wish that worked for me.  I added the line as suggested (see below):

[GENERAL]
AudioSystem=arts
CDDevice=/dev/sr0
DigitalPlayback=true
TrackAnnouncement=true
Volume=100
ledColor=109,255,18
ledFont=Sans Serif,9,-1,5,75,0,0,0,0,0
But the KsCD continues to recognise the tracks, will even eject the audio CD, but will not play the audio CD. I have tried a range of CDs just to confirm that it is not a defective CD ... the results (or lack thereof) are the same. 

Running the command from the CLI, this is the output:

$ kscd
kscd(21951) HWControler::setEjectActivated: Eject at the end mode changed
kscd(21951) Phonon::KdePlatformPlugin::createBackend: using backend: "GStreamer" 
kscd(21951) HWControler::configMedia: #o#o#o# Loading Optical Drive
kscd(21951) HWControler::configMedia: Phonon Loaded
Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::availableSubtitlesChanged() Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::availableAudioChannelsChanged() Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::titleChanged(int) Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::availableTitlesChanged(int) Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::chapterChanged(int) Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::availableChaptersChanged(int) Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::angleChanged(int) Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::availableAnglesChanged(int) kscd(21951) KsCD::PlayerDBusHandler::PlayerDBusHandler: **** Launching Player Handler**** 
kscd(21951) HWControler::setEjectActivated: Eject at the end mode changed
Unless I'm missing something here, there don't seem to be any error messages (although I don't know what the "Eject at the end mode changed" refers to, since I didn't make any alterations.
To be fair, this isn't just KsCD though. Even Goobox keeps telling me that it is an invalid device, and I can't find any config file for that to try to point it in the right direction (even using the --device=/dev/sr0 switch as root or as a normal user). Yet the drive works, Rhythmbox picks up an optical disk in the drive, and I am getting increasingly pissed off with this, because it defies logic and I've exhausted what little skills I can bring to this..
So, I don't know if you (or anyone else here) has any further thoughts/ suggestions. Google searches are now beginning to either throw back links from 2005/ 6/ 7 or my own email messages to this list ... so little to no help there. 

Thanks for any further ideas.

Cheers

AG
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