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I have a DVD and a CD R/W (which may well be junk). Both of these are IDE devices, but they claim to be SCSI. That's all fine with me, if they work. Back in the old days, it was possible to view the music file on a CD-ROM. I want to copy a few song files onto the hard drive. I was expecting to be able to brows the CD-ROM with Konqueror and do a drag and drop, or at least do these things from a command prompt. This doesn't seem quite as straight forward as I expected it to be. Another thing I can't figure out is how to play music from the DVD. The DVD is /dev/sr1, whereas the CD-R/W is /dev/sr0. I have a problem with the CD-W/R in that it has a tendency to jump to a different track in the middle of a song. I don't know if this is a mechanical problem, a bios problem, or a driver problem. I don't have the patience to stay in XP long enough to test the CD-W/R for long enough to determine if the problem manifests itself there. So I have these questions: 1) How do I view and copy the files on a music? 2) how do I use the DVD drive to play music. (I just realized, I may need to hook up the wires to the sound card. I don't know if I have a second jack to do that with. 2a What do those stupid little wires you connect between the soundcard and the CD-ROM or DVD actually do? 3) Has anybody had a similar problem with a CD-ROM or CD-W/R jumping from one track to another? 4) Can I play music directly from a harddrive? STH -- Hatton's Law: There is only One inviolable Law
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On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 12:42, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I have a DVD and a CD R/W (which may well be junk). (...)
Hi Steve, This is in sdb. SuSE 8.1 forgets to load the kernel modules for IDE drives. Look in /etc/sysconfig/kernel; It may read: INITRD_MODULES="reiserfs ide-scsi" Change it to: INITRD_MODULES="reiserfs cdrom ide-cd ide-scsi" and run mk_initrd, reboot, and fine. Or you can adjust the symlinks, as I have posted >=20 times. Cheers .... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@gmx.net
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The 02.10.19 at 06:42, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Back in the old days, it was possible to view the music file on a CD-ROM. I want to copy a few song files onto the hard drive. I was expecting to be able to brows the CD-ROM with Konqueror and do a drag and drop, or at least do these things from a command prompt. This doesn't seem quite as straight forward as I expected it to be.
I think that is a trick of konkeror it self, music Cds contains no files. sound tracks have to be "ripped".
Another thing I can't figure out is how to play music from the DVD. The DVD is /dev/sr1, whereas the CD-R/W is /dev/sr0.
For sound they are not accessed that way. They do not need to be even mounted. I can play from both the cd or dvd reader, using suse 7.3.
2a What do those stupid little wires you connect between the soundcard and the CD-ROM or DVD actually do?
The music is converted form digital to analog voltages inside the player or reader, which are connected directly to the sound card for output to the speakers. Once the player starts no CPU is needed.
3) Has anybody had a similar problem with a CD-ROM or CD-W/R jumping from one track to another?
Perhaps dust in the head tracking system. You could clean it, but... I'm not sure how, I can't explain. If you do, make sure no oil touches the lenses.
4) Can I play music directly from a harddrive?
Of course: as sound files; usually mp3 files. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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On Tuesday 22 October 2002 02.31, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I think that is a trick of konkeror it self, music Cds contains no files.
That depends a little on your definition of "files". There is a defined organisation of ones and zeros on the disk, with header information on where on the disc each track starts and so forth. It's a file system, just not one of the ones you use for hard drives. It should be possible to write a filesystem driver for it so you could "mount" it. In some sense the kde people have done so, in user space in konqueror. Anders
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