New member with CD audio problem

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:56:58 -0400, Clint Harshaw wrote:

> paul wrote:
> > I am extremely new to Fedora 2 and could do with some advice.  I have
> > installed and am using Fedora core 2 version ( 2.6.8-1.521 ) but I am
> > unable to hear any CD audio. 
> > My soundcard is working fine and the CD player can find and play the
> > music but I don't hear a thing!
> > On a separate drive I have Windows XP Pro and that plays ok.
> > Thanks in anticipation.
> > Paul
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hi Paul, and welcome to Fedora!
> 
> I have a couple of questions that might help troubleshoot:
> 
> 1. Do you have the CD audio cable connected properly from the CD drive 
> to the card? (I once had a bad connection on a machine that was causing 
> the problem. Once I seated the cable well, then I had CD sound.)

Without a cable, try XMMS (program name 'xmms') and configure its CD
player plugin to play Audio CDs _digitally_. That doesn't need a
cable. If that works and the other CD playing software doesn't, it
might be that it doesn't support digital playback [yet].
 
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