Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Digital CD Player for Linux
From: Krzys Majewski (majewski_AT_cs.ubc.ca)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 05:51:37 EEST
I was interested in doing this too for a while. I tried something like
cdda2wav | ecaplay and found that it was causing my hard drive to spin
constantly, so I abandoned it. Anybody know why this was happening?
-chris
"Mark C. Pawson" <Mark.C.Pawson_AT_student.shu.ac.uk> writes:
> 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. Could
> this be a possible project in the future for a talented developer interested in
> AOL (Audio on Linux)?
>
> Sincerely
>
> Mark Pawson.
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