On the Debian User list, many people including Chris Smith wrote: Thanks for the info everyone. I'm having a few problems, however...
> > Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs [snip] > cdparanoia to extract the audio from the cd. Okay, I've tried that, but I don't seem to get very far: ~# cdparanoia 1 <general info stuff snipped> Ripping from sector 33 (track 1 [0:00:00]) Ripping to sector 11822 (track 1 [2:37:14]) Ouputing to cdda.wav (== PROGRESS == [> | ...... 00 ] == :-P . ==) hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 hdb: ATAPI reset complete hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 hdb: ATAPI reset complete hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40, sector 0 Anyone know what those status code mean? The drive is quite obviously doing something (I can hear it), and the '.' after the ":-P" in the PROGRESS line changes between '.', 'o', and '0' (I guess to show that something is happening). I read on the Troubleshooting section of the cdparanoia website that some drives have trouble extracting the first track so I tried doing the second and got a similar result, except that it first extracted most of the track. The cdparanoia README says: <snip> |(for ATAPI and proprietary cdrom devices) | | The kernel must have compiled-in or module-supplied cdrom support. Compiled in, so I guess that's not the problem. <snip> | In the /dev directory there have to be these descriptors: | br-------- 1 cduser user <major>, 0 Jan 23 1995 <cdrom device 1> | br-------- 1 cduser user <major>, 1 Mar 24 1993 <cdrom device 2> | etc... I have: /dev# ls -la | more <snip> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 2 2000 cdrom -> /dev/hdb <snip> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 64 Dec 9 1999 hdb (which makes me think I might switch off the 'w' but doubt that that is my problem here?) | a link named 'cdrom' to the cdrom drive used will speed up the | process of finding the cdrom (cdparanoia checks for the link first) Yup, it seems to find it just dandy. Anyone know why it fails to complete an extraction once it has found it, please? > > For bonus points you might also like to recommend a sound card, as > > I'm not sure that mine (Yamaha WF192XG) works too well (or at all) > > using GPL-type software. > > Have you tried Alsa? I've just started reading the docs. Last time that I looked, my card wasn't supported as Yamaha wouldn't release the details, but it seems they've had a change of heart :-) -- Gary Debian 2.1r4 (kernel v2.0.39); XFree86 3.3.6
