Re: audio cd problem solved [was Re: cdrom drive (round two)]


Subject: Re: audio cd problem solved [was Re: cdrom drive (round two)]
From: Charlie Watts (cewatts@frontier.net)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 21:16:34 MST


On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Mark Brethen wrote:

> On Sunday 04 November 2001 07:10, Charlie Watts wrote:
> >
> > I bet that xmms-cdread reads the 1's and 0's from the CD and then plays
> > them in software. Most CD players don't do that, and just tell the CD
> > player to "play" and rely on the hardware to play it.
>
> The Xmms-CdRead plugin reads the CdRom as data.

Right ...

> > Perhaps you just have a mixer problem. Are you sure that the volume is
> > turned up on the CD-audio input?
>
> This is the internal cdrom in my beige G3 and there isn't a volume control on
> the front. It may be that the cd player doesn't have an audio connection.

Software mixer, I mean. K Menu -> Multimedia -> Sound Mixer. Is there a
control for CD Audio?

-- 
Charlie Watts
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