On Sunday, 4 January 2026 12:29:00 Greenwich Mean Time Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Jack. > > Thanks for the reply! > > On Sat, Jan 03, 2026 at 15:33:43 -0500, Jack wrote: > > On 2026.01.03 11:44, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 15:44:06 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > [ .... ] > > > > > I think I am just going to buy a new drive. At ~25 Euros, it's > > > > just not worthwhile trying all these things on the current one. > > > > > > Well, I've bought and installed a new drive (made by ASUS) and it > > > hasn't helped in the slightest. :-( > > > > > > Maybe modern DVD drives just aren't capable of reading audio CDs > > > properly. > > > > It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I've successfully read audio CDs > > with a DVD reader. Can you find any documentation on the specific > > drive model you just bought? > > Well, things have taken a turn for the better! I've discovered the > program xine, which plays audio CDs faultlessly. :-) Maybe I'm kidding > myself, but the sound quality seems better even than the sections without > crackle on deadbeef. So it's not my hardware which is at fault.
But, 'other things being equal' the same CDs play fine on the old hardware when using the same software ... ? > Looking at the C source code for xine, it seems it uses direct ioctl > calls to the kernel to read data from the CD. deadbeef instead uses > dev-libs/libcdio for this. Maybe there's some incompatibility between > libcdio and my hw/sw setup. I will be trying to pin this down in the > coming days/weeks. What is the cache size on xine Vs deadbeef/aqualung/vlc or whatever else? > > As a temporary workaround, you might consider copying the entire > > content of the CD to a folder, then play from local storage instead of > > directly from the disk. I've done this in the past with VLC, but just > > using a file browser should show each track as some sort of audio file. > > I haven't tried this yet, but I intend to do so this afternoon (European > time). Thanks for the suggestion. The burner software (e.g. k3b) will produce a log. Check what errors/warnings it reports - it may shed some light on the causes of this problem.
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