Playing audio CD's with Linux

[Muzzafarath]

I'm having some trouble playing audio CD's with Linux. I can play MP3's fine using mpg123 or freeamp, but whenever I try to use an audio CD playing program (demcd for example) to play an audio CD, I hear no sound through the speakers. The LED on my CD-player (/dev/hdc) starts flashing but there's no sound. If I insert headphones into the CD-player I can hear the music. What can be wrong? I'm using SuSE Linux 6.4 with the 2.2.14 kernel. I can play audio CD's fine (and hear the music in my speakers) in both Windows 98 and BeOS.

I've got two CD players in my computer. hdc is a DVD-player (it's the one connected to my soundcard, a Soundblaster AudioPCI 64), and then there's hdd, which is an IDE/ATAPI CD-writer. Could it matter that I have two cd players?

[Paul Weaver]

Have you got a CD Audio cable hooked up between the CD you are playing and the soundcard?

Go into a mixer (gmix, aumix etc.) and make sure that the CD bar is not on mute or too low

[Muzzafarath]

Yep, I believe there's a cable between my DVD and my soundcard since I can play audio CD's fine in both Win98 and BeOS. (I mentioned that in my first post, "it's the one connected to my soundcard, a Soundblaster AudioPCI 64").

I'll try to find a mixer and see if it works.

[This message has been edited by Muzzafarath (edited 08 October 2000).]

[Paul Weaver]

Originally posted by Muzzafarath:
"it's the one connected to my soundcard, a Soundblaster AudioPCI 64"

Hey - its still early, only 12:15!

[Muzzafarath]

I used alsamixer to raise the CD volume (it was 0), I raised it to 100 (or the max value, can't remember what it was), but still, no sound from the speakers http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif Any other ideas?

[Paul Weaver]

On my soundcard (OSS drivers though), If I raise the volume too high It cuts out - usualy happens about 80%, but thats with the main volume. I'm a little stumped TBH. The only other thing is that you might have changed the volume, but if its still on mute it wont do anything.

[Ig0r]

Go to your mixer panel, and check to see if your cd input is set to record (or something like that, it's one of the checkboxes below the sliders) or not. Mine won't work unless it's set to record..

[The King Ant]

You should try raising all of the volume sliders. If you plugged the CD player into your soundcard under, like, "TV Input" instead of "CD Input," then the slider that controls the CD volume wouldn't really change the CD volume...

Have you checked to make sure you have permissions? As root, "chown yourusername.yourusername /dev/cdrom" This probably isn't the problem, since you don't get an error message, but it can't hurt to check.

[Muzzafarath]

The first thing I did when I installed was to change the passwords for my cdrom drives so I could mount them as a user. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

I _can_ play audio CD's, I just can't hear the music through the speakers.

I'll try to raise all of the sliders.

[This message has been edited by Muzzafarath (edited 09 October 2000).]

[Muzzafarath]

I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to let everyone know that I can play audio CD's just fine now. I switched from SuSE 6.4 to Slackware 7.1, grabbed the latest stable version of KDE2 and the multimedia package, and I can now play CD's fine using the CD player that comes with KDE2... I wonder what did the trick: Slackware or KDE2... As long as it's working though http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif

[This message has been edited by Muzzafarath (edited 01 November 2000).]

[ille_pugil42]

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