Am Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:58:15 +0200 schrieb Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.b...@gmx.net>:
> Am Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:27:20 -0400 > schrieb Colleen Beamer <colleen.bea...@gmail.com>: > > > 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. > > hi colleen, > > that is not how it works, those are two very different methods of > playing audio. if the cable between the cdrom and the soundcard is > connected, you can play CDs directly from the drive with minimum > software interaction or "tell the cdrom to play the cd on the > soundcard". that has nothing to do with playing ogg from HD, the data > takes a totally different path. > > i do not know if kscd does that, but as joost pointed out that would > be a good explanation why you can play CDs in kaffeine but not in > kscd. check for the cable. or tell kscd to use digital playback: http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/408961-kscd-wont-play-cds-sata-drive.html > > /jonas > > > > > Regards, > > > > Colleen > > > > > > >