On Sat, 01 May 2004 the mental interface of Christian Luijten told: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 07:26:52PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > I am trying to play an audio cd with > > cdcd, xmms and grip => no output > > > > alsaplyer => output > > cdcd, xmms and grip (falsely) assume you can transmit analog audio from > your CD player. On most Intel PC's this is done via a small audio cable > to your sound card. > > Assuming you have an Apple however, this is done digitally via the > flatcable. Alsaplayer apparantly can play digital CD audio.
Sounds reasonable. Thanks Elimar -- Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful ;-)
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