[Lancaster] Help needed with playing CDs under Debian Lenny

[andy baxter]

Hi ken,

If you want to rip CDs under debian, I've had pretty good results with 
the command line ripper called jack. (Which is different from jackd, the 
jack audio connection kit).

Not sure about playing them though.

andy

Ken Hough wrote:
> I'm setting up a spare PC with Debian Lenny to work mainly as a server box, 
> but just now I'm taking the opportunity to look again at desktop stuff under 
> Debian.
>
> All seems to be working well, except for playing CDs.
>
> Under CD Player v2.0.0 and under Sound Juicer v2.22.0, I get approx 1 second 
> breaks in sound output. The drive LED indicates that data is being read for 
> periods of approx 10 seconds with breaks of about the same period. It looks 
> like a lot of data is being read in and is being buffered, but that there is 
> a gap between the buffer becoming  empty and new data being read in.
>
> The drive is OK (see below). I have used this machine before (under win XP and 
> SUSE Linux) without trouble. The usual appearance of the drive LED is 
> repeated short blinks and no interuption of sound output.
>
> I've checked that dma is operating (via 'hparm') and I can play DVDs 100% OK 
> via xine. I can also play CDs OK via xine although xine seems to spend some 
> time reading the CD before beginning to play. After that I get the expected 
> repeated short blinks from the Drive LED, but no interuptions in sound 
> output.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get CD PLayer and Sound Juicer to work properly?
>
> Regards
>
> Ken Hough
>
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