Playing audio CDs no longer works.

[Joel Gomberg]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:28 -0800, Joel Gomberg wrote:
>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>
>>> Would others agree that you can sound from a CD without a sound cable?
>> Sure.  In XMMS, for example, go to preferences -> Audio I/O 
>> plugins and press the configure button for the CD Audio 
>> Player plugin.  Put in the device [for me, /dev/cdrom] and 
>> directory [/media/cdrecorder] and select Digital audio 
>> extraction under play mode.
>>
>> -- 
>> Joel
>>
> Something wrong here. In my experience audio CDs are not mounted
> under /media as data CD's are. In fact the mounted CD does not even show
> up in the list produced by the mount command. But the disk icon is still
> on the desktop,

I guess this is just an XMMS kludge, because it doesn't seem 
to have the ability to play audio CD's without mounting 
them.  Totem-xine plays them without mounting.  I haven't 
had an audio cable from my CD player to the sound card in years.


-- 
Joel