[lug] Dual Soundcard Woes

[Neil Doane]

No, it's me that's confused.  One day I'm going to learn to read.  I dunno
why, but when I saw "CDDA" my brain thought it saw "CDDB". :P  Sorry.
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
Neil




* Peter Hutnick (peter-lists at hutnick.com), on [08-27-03 14:39], wrote:
> Neil Doane said:
> > * Peter Hutnick (peter-lists at hutnick.com), on [08-26-03 22:08], wrote:
> >> Neil Doane said:
> >> > * Peter Hutnick (peter-lists at hutnick.com), on [08-25-03 16:50],
> >> wrote:
> >> >> PPS: Anyone know of any good "CD Player" app that supports CDDA?
> >> I'd like to be able to use my CDROM->USB->Home Stereo.
> >> >
> >> > XMMS
> >>
> >> I found some apparently unmaintained source code that purported to be
> >> an XMMS plugin for this purpose, but I couldn't do anything with it.
> >>
> >> Can you elaborate a hair?
> >>
> >> -Peter
> >
> > Sure.  What you want is the CD Audio Player plugin for XMMS, which
> > comes
> >  with the xmms package on my Debian system.  Here's the explanation
> > from the XMMS README file (located in /usr/share/doc/xmms/README.gz on
> > my
> > system) which explains the slightly funky way in which the CD Audio
> > plugin works.
> 
> This seems to not support CDDA at all.  This plugin appears to instruct
> the CD drive to play the CD.  Since there is no way to plug the audio out
> from the drive into the USB "soundcard" this doesn't do me any good.
> 
> Please note that CDDA is CD Digital Audio.  In this case reading an audio
> CD as data over the IDE cable.  CDDB is CD Data Base, and is unrelated
> (outside of the fact that they both relate to audio CDs).
> 
> Or am I confused?
> 
> -Peter
> 
>