Re: [SLUG] Getting audio CD to work

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 17:38:11 EST


On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 16:17, Kenneth W Hansen wrote:
> In my case, it shows that it's playing, but no sound.
> The welcome music plays when I log in, and all of the
> other sounds work.
> I'm running a CD burner, so it emulates a SCSI. I've
> checked, and it is showing the correct device in the
> settings.

Besides the cable there are a couple other things to check:

Open the Volume Control and verify that the CD is not muted.

Does your CD player have a volume knob? I'm not sure if it affects the
passthrough cable, but you can try fiddling with it.

If you have more than one CD player and are using a motherboard based
sound chip, then often only one input is active. I.e., there are usually
two connectors, a black and white, and one of them gets automatically
disabled if the second is connected.

Some CD players also have an option to actually read the WAV file
directly from the CD rather than just using the pass-through. It may
have an option such as "Digital Audio".

Are you using KSCD (you mentioned the KDE CD player) or something else?
Have you tried XMMS with the CD plugin?



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