Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Digital CD Player for Linux
From: Mark C. Pawson (Mark.C.Pawson_AT_student.shu.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Oct 07 2001 - 15:15:08 EEST
linux-audio-user_AT_music.columbia.edu writes:
>"Mark C. Pawson" wrote:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have just joined this list and I am very interested in the development of
>> audio support on Linux. I currently play back CDs using the standard Gnome
>CD
>> player with the OSS sound drivers. This works well although the sound does
>> suffer from electrical interference because of the thin CD audio cable inside
>> my PC. Does any software exist to play back CDs using digital audio
>extraction
>> (like the windows media player) using the IDE data cable and the DAC built
>into
>> the sound card? On windows this makes a dramatic improvement to the quality
>of
>> the audio playback. I have already done a lot of searching on the Internet,
>> Sourceforge, freshmeat and other sites but I have not found anything.
>
>alsaplayer (http://www.alsaplayer.org) used to do this.
>haven't checked it in a while, but it should still work.
>
>the downside of doing this is that it loads the IDE bus and the
>system, while using the analog cable has no noticeable effect on
>performance, because it uses almost no system resources.
>
>have you tried to get a better shielded cable ?
>i haven't had any noise problems, and my machine is quite crammed (2
>disks, cdrom, cdr, 2 cpus with fan, extra chipset fan, network, 2
>soundcards, 2 scsi controllers).
>
>> Could
>> this be a possible project in the future for a talented developer interested
>in
>> AOL (Audio on Linux)?
>
>hmmm. why is it that i don't like this acronym ? :)
>
>look at the alsaplayer source to see how it's done, it's GPL'd IIRC.
>
>regards,
>
>jvrn
>
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Hi Jorn,
Thank you for the recommendation. I will try a better cable if one is
available. I imagine there should be something available but I won't hold my
breath, a proper Digital CD audio decoder will be the best solution.
Many Thanks
Mark Pawson
>
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