Re: CDROM will not play a music cd.

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 07/22/2018 04:57 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bob Bernstein wrote:
> > The playback is jumpy, or skippy, anything but smooth and continuous.
>    https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-mplayer-playing-audio-dvd-cd-using-bash-shell/
> proposes option "-cache 5000":
>
>    mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/sr0 cdda:// -cache 5000
>
> I guess it's a real-time problem which can be solved by reading ahead.
>
> If the problem persists, try to copy the tracks to hard disk and see
> what happens if you play the resulting files.
>
>
> > Selected audio codec: Uncompressed PCM [pcm]
> > AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1411.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 176400->176400)
> > [...]
> > AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
> > [...]
> >   That "2 bytes per sample," above, looks suspicious.
> 2 bytes = 16 bit. That's exactly what is prescribed for CD-DA:
>    headerless PCM (i.e. uncompressed)
>    44100 Hz sampling rate
>    16 bits per sample
>    stereo (2 channels)
>    little-endian byte order
> (Dunno why above "[alsa]"-line talks of 48000 Hz.)
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas
This may or may not be off topic, but you folks seem to know something 
about CDs, so I'll ask:
My friend has just gotten a Korean car--it's either a Hundai or a Kia, I 
don't remember, but
it has no CD player, but it does have a USB connection, which purports 
to be a sound input.
So the question: I would make some copies of CDs onto a flash drive, if 
I knew how! I would
prefer to use K3b to copy the CDs; do I have to format the flash drive, 
and if so with what
system? (I thought that flash drives come formatted with a Windows file 
system?)
And what other questions should I be asking, which I'm too uninformed to 
ask? And
what are the answers? BTW: I have never, in 20 years or more, ever 
gotten Audacity to do
anything for me, so that is out!

Thanx for any kind words and info!  --doug