2010/11/27 Gérard Robin <g.rob...@free.fr> > Finally I stick with lenny and the kernel 2.6.30 (or 2.6.26) > I feel that listening music on command line is no longer fashionable.
It has nothing to do with fashion. I normally rip all my CDs in FLAC and play them from library but intrigued by your issue tried to play music directly from CD and got same results - disc spins up but no sound. I found that some players spin CD up with no sound even in GUI - that's, for example, the result I got in Amarok. But I got good results with SMPlayer as well as bare command-line mplayer. The command to play CD with mplayer is "mplayer cdda://" to play the whole thing, "mplayer cdda://3" to play only third track, etc., you can look it up in man. I've had to do couple tweaks to get mine working properly, namely I changed "ao=alsa," to "ao=pulse" and uncommented "cache=8192" line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf. While browsing around I noticed people saying that DAE has hit on drive throughput as well as CPU load but in my case CD is on separate controller from SSD and it takes less then 1% of the CPU, my only concern is mplayer's memory footprint. I know I had CDDA working without DAE before on my ThinkPad (couple years ago when I was still under Windows) so maybe it has something to do with PulseAudio, I'm not sure. I remember that I had install PulseAudio manually after upgrade to Squeeze, so unless you did the same issue is most likely with ALSA. Best, Alexey -- This message was created with 100% recycled electrons -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimoj3od3qzninydz+75ztgfe39jf9_7n3xbj...@mail.gmail.com
