From: Duane Attaway (dattaway@attaway.org)
Date: 02/24/02


Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 23:16:32 -0600
From: Duane Attaway <dattaway@attaway.org>
Subject: Re: Digital CD Audio
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0202250055110.12577-100000@balder.coreyt.com>

I was going to suggest playing the cd digitally using /usr/bin/cdparaanioa
and pipe the wav file into /usr/bin/play, but cdparanioa will not pipe.
Perhaps it needs a little patch to help make things nice, but this worked
for me:

cdparanoia -w -- "-10" &
play cdda.wav

100% digital!

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Lucas Peet wrote:

> I recently converted my WinXP box over to RedHat 7.2. When I put an
> audio CD into my drive, it doesn't play. This is because I don't have
> the analog audio output line from my CD-Rom to my sound card. However,
> Windows (2K, XP) have been able to play them without any problem, using
> digital CD audio, pulling the audio data through the IDE bus, instead of
> the analog output.
>
> Is there any software for Linux that supports this, or will I just need
> to put that cable on? I've tried Noatun, and XMMS, and the KDE CD
> Player...none work.
>
> BTW, sound is configured properly, and everything else runs great!
>
> -Lucas
>
>
>
>

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