Re: [linux-audio-user] Digital CD Player for Linux

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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 - 15:31:42 EEST

linux-audio-user_AT_music.columbia.edu writes:
>Mark C. Pawson hat gesagt: // Mark C. Pawson wrote:
>
>> 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. Could
>> this be a possible project in the future for a talented developer interested
>in
>> AOL (Audio on Linux)?
>
>There exists a CD-Audio plugin for xmms (libcdaudio.so), that also works,
>if your card lacks a CD-to-Soundcard cable, like many high end cards do
>(Midiman for example.)
>
>I never used it, though, because I have a standalone CD player.
>
>bye,
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Thank you for the advice, I shall give XMMS at try!

Mark Pawson

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