On 10/19/11 10:25, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote: >> Semi-solved. >> >> On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer >>> <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> >>>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've >>>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine. >>>> >>>> >>>> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that >>>> says: >>>> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://" >> I can now play an audio CD in kaffeine. I have no idea what I did! I >> did add a couple of packages and because of this changed some use flags >> and updated my system with --newuse, but that's all I did. >> >> However, I still cannot play a CD in kscd. > Hi Colleen, > > I didn't find it in this thread yet, but I am wondering if you have the > CD-drive connected to the soundcard or not. > > Some applications will "rip" and play the cdda-tracks directly from the > CD. Others will simply tell the CD-drive to play an audio-cd and have the > cd-drive do the decoding. > In the latter case, the audio-signal goes over a little cable from the > cd-drive to the soundcard.
I assume that it is connected because I could play an audio file (ogg) from my hard drive. Also, now I can play CD's using kaffeine, just not kscd. I can rip them using asunder. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
