Am Freitag, 21. Oktober 2011, 22:01:06 schrieb Jonas de Buhr: > Am Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:24:52 +0200 > > schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer <grim...@gmx.de>: > > Am Freitag, 21. Oktober 2011, 20:35:07 schrieb Jonas de Buhr: > > > Am Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:43:09 -0400 > > > > > > schrieb Colleen Beamer <colleen.bea...@gmail.com>: > > > > P.S. kscd will display the track listings on the CD, but will > > > > not > > > > play. > > > > > > again, please check for the audio cable going from cd-rom to > > > soundcard or have a look at the link i posted earlier. > > > > FWIW, I don't have this cable and my kscd has no "extras->settings & > > behaviour", where I could switch "use direct digital playback" like > > mentioned in your link (has yours?) > > i just emerged it (i don't normally use CDs more than once for ripping,
I am old fashioned in this regard. I have ~500 LPs and some more CDs and listen to them on my ancient, but excellent, Onkyo-HiFi. Of course my computer is connected to it, so I can listen to mp3s using this superb hardware too :) > can't see why anyone would) and it indeed has not. > maybe the option was moved to the backend? Doesn't seem so. I looked really, really hard to find this setting anywhere, cause I remember there was one quite some time ago. Nothing, nowhere afaict. > >, but it plays audio-cds just fine > > > > from my SATA-drive. > > well... its not a big revelation that this is possible ;) > as long as the functionality for direct playback (through the extra > cable) wasn't completely removed from kscd (possible, anyone interested > should read the changelogs) it's still a very reasonable explanation > for this problem since it's working in caffeine but not in a "simple" > application like kscd which is more likely to rely on builtin > functionality. I think, that this is gstreamer related. Colleen uses phonon-gstreamer, whereas I use phonon-xine, because I had only bad experiences with the gstreamer phonon-backend. Best, Michael
