[SWLUG] Semi-OT - Audio CD's

[Mike Martin]

2009/7/16 Justin Mitchell <justin at discordia.org.uk>:
> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 10:08 +0100, Mike Martin wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> For some reason Audio-CD's no longer play in my DVDrw (running F10/11)
>>
>> May very well be drive starting to fail but only applies to audio-cds,
>> other Cd's inc video-cds and dvd cds play fine.
>>
>> Fairly sure its not the actual CDs as they play OK on my (v old)
>> laptop running puppy.
>>
>> Any ideas what to check and also what modules should be loading for
>> audio-cds, anything I've found on-line is ancient
>
> probably out of date, but afair the drive itself typically plays an
> audio cd itself, has its own DAC etc and outputs analog audio, thats
> what the extra little cable from the drive is for.  but everything else
> is done by reading the data.
>
> i think that a modern distro will let you mount the cd and shows you a
> bunch of wav files representing the tracks.  try playing one of those
> and see if its different.
>
> as it copuld be that the cd play part of the drive has indeed failed,
> but nothing stopping you from just ripping the tracks to your hd to
> play.
>

thats the problem - the disk isn't recognised