Strange sound problems 1: CD playback
Someone mentioned problems with playing music CDs. Well, my music CDs apparently wouldn't play, or to be spesific: They played (in xmms, KSCD etc), but no sound emanated from the speakers. Then I found out that I could hear the CD music IF I PLAYED mp3's SIMULTANEOUSLY! In other words, in order to listen to a music CD I would have to do the following: - Start XMMS, set it to play an mp3 file, turn its volume down (or even mute it in Kmix) - Start KSCD, turn up the CD volume in Kmix (for some reason the KSCD volume control doesen't work) Stopping or pausing the mp3 playback leaves the CD audio playing for about 5 seconds. Now, my sense of logic (which is no substitute for solid knowledge on how things work, unfortunately) tells me that there is some sort of feedback mechanism here that isn't working properly - that the sound drivers doesen't "realize" that the CD is playing, and that the mixer doesen't "realize" that I adjust the volume control on KSCD. Anyone else experiencing the same? Even better, can anybody out there enlighten me about how to fix this? (Sound card: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz aka Videologic Sonic Fury, CS46xx module) Thanks, Magnar Olsen
Hi Magnar, Right click in the xmms and choose "Play adress" and write i.e. /dev/dvd. Worked to me. If you want to play a music CD that is. It did work with /dev/cdrom as well (another device though). Regards, Thomas
Someone mentioned problems with playing music CDs. Well, my music CDs apparently wouldn't play, or to be spesific: They played (in xmms, KSCD etc), but no sound emanated from the speakers. Then I found out that I could hear the CD music IF I PLAYED mp3's SIMULTANEOUSLY!
In other words, in order to listen to a music CD I would have to do the following: - Start XMMS, set it to play an mp3 file, turn its volume down (or even mute it in Kmix) - Start KSCD, turn up the CD volume in Kmix (for some reason the KSCD volume control doesen't work) Stopping or pausing the mp3 playback leaves the CD audio playing for about 5 seconds.
Now, my sense of logic (which is no substitute for solid knowledge on how things work, unfortunately) tells me that there is some sort of feedback mechanism here that isn't working properly - that the sound drivers doesen't "realize" that the CD is playing, and that the mixer doesen't "realize" that I adjust the volume control on KSCD.
Anyone else experiencing the same? Even better, can anybody out there enlighten me about how to fix this?
(Sound card: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz aka Videologic Sonic Fury, CS46xx module)
Thanks, Magnar Olsen
Nope, didn't work. I tried - XMMS found the CD, it even showed the correct track titles downloaded from the internet, but it didn't play the tracks - it raced through the playlist as if it couldn't find the actual tracks. I tried loading the cd tracks into xmms as I would with mp3 files - that is, using the "load" button. Starting that way, I did get xmms to play the CD tracks, but again - without any sound. Playing back an mp3 file (using another program, of course, the xmms being busy), brought the CD audio back as before. The only real difference I noticed was that the volume control coupling worked - turning down the xmms volume control when playing the CD did in fact turn down the CD volume of Kmix. Additional info which might or might not be signifiicant: CD rom: SCSI Plextor Ultraplex 40 max, /dev/cdrom, which is symlinked to /dev/sr0 CD burner: SCSI Plextor 4220, /dev/cdrom1, symlinked to /dev/sr1 So, I am still stuck with having to play back mp3s muted when I want to listen to a cd... Regards, Magnar. Thomas Widlundh wrote:
Hi Magnar, Right click in the xmms and choose "Play adress" and write i.e. /dev/dvd. Worked to me. If you want to play a music CD that is. It did work with /dev/cdrom as well (another device though). Regards, Thomas
Someone mentioned problems with playing music CDs. Well, my music CDs apparently wouldn't play, or to be spesific: They played (in xmms, KSCD etc), but no sound emanated from the speakers. Then I found out that I could hear the CD music IF I PLAYED mp3's SIMULTANEOUSLY!
In other words, in order to listen to a music CD I would have to do the following: - Start XMMS, set it to play an mp3 file, turn its volume down (or even mute it in Kmix) - Start KSCD, turn up the CD volume in Kmix (for some reason the KSCD volume control doesen't work) Stopping or pausing the mp3 playback leaves the CD audio playing for about 5 seconds.
Now, my sense of logic (which is no substitute for solid knowledge on how things work, unfortunately) tells me that there is some sort of feedback mechanism here that isn't working properly - that the sound drivers doesen't "realize" that the CD is playing, and that the mixer doesen't "realize" that I adjust the volume control on KSCD.
Anyone else experiencing the same? Even better, can anybody out there enlighten me about how to fix this?
(Sound card: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz aka Videologic Sonic Fury, CS46xx module)
Thanks, Magnar Olsen
On Monday 24 February 2003 03:52 pm, Magnar Olsen wrote:
Nope, didn't work. I tried - XMMS found the CD, it even showed the correct track titles downloaded from the internet, but it didn't play the tracks - it raced through the playlist as if it couldn't find the actual tracks.
I've seen this before! At least 1 cause of this behavior is when I try to play from a playlist but the songs are on an unmounted partition. The other is when the output plugin is incorrectly set to disk writer plugin, (although this runs through the playlist nowhere near as fast as an unmounted partition) or null plugin. If the diskwriter plugin is selected then you are probably getting a nice selection of *.wav files in your home directory :-(. Just some ideas. -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!
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