Looking for a CD Player Application that Works.

Looking for a CD Player Application that Works.

[Martin G. McCormick]

	I installed cdctrl on my Debian system some time ago, but
I have never been able to get it to play the CD's.  It kind of
works in that it will eject the disk and it can read the calendar
display if you give it the  d  command.  When it does try to
play, the drive runs at its top speed and I get an IOCTL error
indicating an end of track but not so much as a pop from the
headphone jack on the front of the drive.

	The presence of the jack and a volume control tells me
that the drive is capable of playing a CD, but it isn't getting
the message to do so.

	The calendar display is simply an accumulated listing of
each cut on the disk and the elapsed time up to that track so it
isn't like there is no communication at all.  It just isn't
playing.

	Are there any suggestions as to what might be wrong?  Are
there any similar applications that might work better?  What I
installed was

cdtool-2.1.5

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group

Re: Looking for a CD Player Application that Works.

[Dave Hunt]

Hello,

Sounds like your cd player application is trying to route the cd audio 
through the mixer and sound card.  If you plug phones in there, what 
happens?  In any case, if you'd rather have cd audio out the drive's 
phones jack, perhaps your application can be 'told' you don't have an 
audio mixer?   

I use a cd player application called 'jac'.  When I installed it, it was 
configured to use the stereo mixer for cd audio.  I don't have one.  To 
fix this, I made a change in jac's config file.  Now I get sound out the 
drive's jack.  

I don't think the jac (that's j  a  c) program is available in any of the 
package formats (like rpm or deb).  I got it from source forge, and 
compiled.

--  Dave  

Re: Looking for a CD Player Application that Works.

[Bill Gaughan]

Hello,

I use a couple of cd player apps in slackware linux. I use workbone and
demcd. there are also a bunch of command-line only cd player apps. Try
workbone. it uses the number pad keys to control the cd player.



-- 
Bill Gaughan
wgaughan@snet.net


On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Dave Hunt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Sounds like your cd player application is trying to route the cd audio
> through the mixer and sound card.  If you plug phones in there, what
> happens?  In any case, if you'd rather have cd audio out the drive's
> phones jack, perhaps your application can be 'told' you don't have an
> audio mixer?
>
> I use a cd player application called 'jac'.  When I installed it, it was
> configured to use the stereo mixer for cd audio.  I don't have one.  To
> fix this, I made a change in jac's config file.  Now I get sound out the
> drive's jack.
>
> I don't think the jac (that's j  a  c) program is available in any of the
> package formats (like rpm or deb).  I got it from source forge, and
> compiled.
>
> --  Dave
>
>
>
>
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Re: Looking for a CD Player Application that Works.

[Gil Andre]

Hi!

My favourite is "cda", the command line utility that comes with
xmcd. xmcd is XWindows only, but cda works exclusively on the 
command line and is quite complete -- it can even control the
outpuit volume on the headphone "jack" plug that is on my CD
ROM drive.

You can download it at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/tkan/xmcd/

Works very well for me. Hope this helps!

_______________________________________________

Gil Andre -- Technical Writer -- Knox Software
            gandre@arkeia.com
_______________________________________________

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 23:20:03 -0500 (EST)
Bill Gaughan <wgaughan@snet.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I use a couple of cd player apps in slackware linux. I use workbone and
> demcd. there are also a bunch of command-line only cd player apps. Try
> workbone. it uses the number pad keys to control the cd player.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bill Gaughan
> wgaughan@snet.net

Re: Looking for a CD Player Application that Works.

[Andor Demarteau]

hi,
have a look at cdcd, it's a commandline program whihc reALLY WORKS QUITE
FINE.
You can even use it in shell-scripts.


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Re: Looking for a CD Player Application that Works.

[Martin G. McCormick]

	I want to thank all of you who responded.  I haven't
gotten to try any of these suggestions yet, but you have all
given me enough to try that I bet one of them will work.

	I always feel a little bad about complaining because this
software is written by very knowledgeable volunteers who try their
best to make it work over a huge range of hardware.  I do a bit
of programming, myself, and it is extremely hard to transplant
some software from one UNIX system to another and still get good
results.  When the software works closely with hardware as do
audio and video applications, I think it is a miracle when it
works at all.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group