Re: Mplayer - can it play audio cd's.........
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:30:38 -0500 (EST), Charlie wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:11:04 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell
> <zlinuxman@wowway.com> shared this with us all:
>>Personally, I like cdplay. It's part of the cdtool package.
>>It's also a command line tool. The thing I like most about cdplay
>>is that it's extremely efficient. It just sends the "play" command
>>to the CD drive and then terminates. The CD drive itself does the
>>digital to analog conversion itself and sends an analog audio signal
>>directly to your sound card. No digital data is transferred across
>>the bus.
>>
>>Most modern media players "rip"
>>the audio data from the CD drive as digital data and then send it to
>>the sound card. That gives you more flexibility if you want to
>>extract audio to your hard drive. But if all you want to do is listen
>>to a music CD, cdplay is an excellent tool. It does require that
>>there be an audio cable between your CD drive and your sound card,
>>though. And the CD channel in Alsamixer must be unmuted and turned
>>up. Since this is an analog input signal, it may not be adjustable by
>>the master volume control, depending on your audio chipset. The CD
>>volume control may operate independently of the master volume control.
>>
>>Other useful commands in the cdtool package are cdstop, cdeject,
>>etc.
>
> Thanks Stephen,
>
> It comes up in my search as:
>
> wmcdplay
>
> and I have an Acer laptop that I use as a desktop [we only have solar
> power] so not certain there is a cable connection? Usually not included
> in laptops I think, but will give it a larrup.
No, that is a different package and a different tool. The package
name is cdtool. It exists in both stable and testing.
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