On Friday 21 November 2003 20:11, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Gustavo Rahal (listas@grahal.net) [031121 11:09]:
This has nothing to do with Linux.
When you play an audio CD, unless you rip it to your hard drive or something like that, it is essentially working like a regular analog-output CD player that happens to be computer controlled. The sound comes out the audio cable.
Since I don't have this analog-output cable I can't listen to music from CD. Is there anyway to play music CD through the IDE cable?
You can either rip the CD to mp3/ogg or visit a store an grab an audio cable for your CDROM. Those are pretty much the choices. :)
There are a few other options. He can look for a plugin called xmms-cdread. That should do what he wants. KsCD will be able to do digital playback when kde3.2 is released according to feature plan. It might(*) already work in kde 3.2 beta1. If he is willing to risk his system for cd-playback, that might also be an option. (*) Please notice that I said might. -- Øystein Olsen, oystein.olsen@astro.uio.no, http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, http://www.astro.uio.no University of Oslo, Norway