[Sderby] Playing music from CDRW

Tony Martin sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Oct 7 20:54:01 2002


I know this may sound simple, but are you sure the lead from the cd to the
sound card has not come adrift, or perhaps is the wrong type. I have found
several version some of which just shorts the O/P of the CD player.

Good luck
Tony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Mitchell" <G.Mitchell@ftel.co.uk>
To: "sderby" <sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 8:44 PM
Subject: [Sderby] Playing music from CDRW


> Hi all,
>
> Following a Hard disk failure and system rebuild, I have now moved to
> Suse 8. During the system rebuild I removed my old and slow cdrom which
> was the secondary ide master and replaced it with my cdrw.
>
> Unfortunately I cannot get applications like xmms to play music cd's
> from the cdrw. It is recognised by cdrecord --scanbus and reported as
> 0,0,0, also cdparanoia finds the music tracks when I point it to
/dev/scd0.
>
> Do i need to create a link in /dev to get xmms to read music cd's from
> the cdrw?
>
> I can mount and read data cd's using the cdrw but getting music cd's to
> play has foxed me.  I have tried searching google and various news
> groups but have not found anything useful yet.
>
> Finally I cannot make the next meeting as I my employer has temporarily
> put me on shifts until christmas, :-( , I was looking forward to getting
>   a look at smoothwall and some background on networking. A well maybe
> another time.
>
> Gordon
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