Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>]

On 10/19/11 10:25, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> Semi-solved.
>>
>> On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer
>>> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
>>>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that
>>>> says:
>>>> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
>> I can now play an audio CD in kaffeine.  I have no idea what I did!  I
>> did add a couple of packages and because of this changed some use flags
>> and updated my system with --newuse, but that's all I did.
>>
>> However, I still cannot play a CD in kscd.
> Hi Colleen,
>
> I didn't find it in this thread yet, but I am wondering if you have the
> CD-drive connected to the soundcard or not.
>
> Some applications will "rip" and play the cdda-tracks directly from the
> CD. Others will simply tell the CD-drive to play an audio-cd and have the
> cd-drive do the decoding.
> In the latter case, the audio-signal goes over a little cable from the
> cd-drive to the soundcard.

I assume that it is connected because I could play an audio file (ogg)
from my hard drive.  Also, now I can play CD's using kaffeine, just not
kscd.  I can rip them using asunder.

Regards,

Colleen



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