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Agent69

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Registered: 2006-05-26

Posts: 189

CD Playing

My computer usage is very basic. I browse the web and play audio CDs.

On my old computer, I used to be able to use cdcd (in Extra) to play CDs because I had an audio output line that went from the back of my CD-ROM drive to my soundcard. Basically, cdcd would put the drive in a play mode and the sound card would just pass the audio from the drive out to the speakers.

On my new Dell, which has a SATA DVD-RW drive, there is no audio out line from the back of the drive to the sound card; everything has to be extracted digitally and passed on to the soundcard via a program and the operating system. Windows did this automatically, so I was unaware of this hardware change until switching back to Arch.

So, is there an application that can pull the CD audio and pass it on to the sound card? I would prefer to not have to rip just to listen to music and I was hoping to find a command line application that would make this possible. (I know Sound Juicer could do this in Ubuntu but I prefer a minimalist system).

Thanks

Last edited by Agent69 (2008-01-14 13:22:41)