Dan Ritter wrote:
> The two ways an optical drive can send audio off of a disk are:
>
> 1. Use the equivalent of cdparanoia to read the data off, do
> error-correction and play through the DSP hardware
>
> 2. Command a CD DAC on the drive to emit music through an analog
> connection to the machine's mixer.
>
> If your usual method was (2), then a broken wire on the analog
> connection is the likely cause. OR, perhaps the mixer input is
> muted or turned to zero.
>
> Try xmms, turning on digital audio extraction (CD-audio plugin
> options).
>
No joy in Mudville. I've not used XMMS in quite a few years; I
installed it and tried to play the cda files. I can find them with no
problem (after I manually created the /media/cdrecorder directory to
which the CD now mounts) but as soon as I click "play" xmms terminates.
I do get the following error, which suggests I've got some sort of
problem with the sound engine (or at least the digital portion of it):
"*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
** WARNING **: alsa_setup(): Failed to open pcm device (default):
Connection refused
Segmentation fault
You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit
http://bugs.xmms.org and fill out a bug report."
What's odd is that this did work - and I can still play sound files
resident on the machine, just not CD audio. The CD is switched on in
the mixer, as well as any other switch that looks like it might help.
Within Grip, I believe I've got it set up to rip via cdparanoia.
-Don
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