No sound when playing cd's

burn · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 28

Ive tried to play a few music cd's both store bought and burns and none of them play any sound. ive tried a few different players and it all turns to be the same. it shows its playing it but no sound. any ideas on how to get it to work?
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qnx · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 9:01 pm Post subject:

Ehh...typical. Anyway, in XMMS' case, emerge xmms-cdread . In other cases I don't know, but Audio-CD can not be mounted as usual CD since there's no filesystem on it. So there are these other ways to do it.... I'm not sure how it works, but it WORKS. So emerge xmms-cdread and next time, USE SEARCH.....ok?
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MacMasta · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 9:10 pm Post subject:

Another possibility - is the cd-audio cable between your sound card and your cdrom drive plugged in? Yes, that's most likely the problem.
Don't know if the aforementioned xmms plugin gets around this.
Using kde? try audiocd:/ is konqueror...

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qnx · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 9:16 pm Post subject:

MacMasta's right, of course. Check audio cabel. But if you could play audio CDs in Windows, than it probably is there already (even if there is a way to play audio CDs in Windows via CD-R->Motherboard->CPU->Soundcard but it eates up quite a lot of CPU time and you'd probably notice that something is wrong).
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Phreakazoid_ · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 8:52 am Post subject:

have you checked your sound mixer's audio-cd volume.
Could be muted.

dbezona · n00b Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 68

Many systems these days ship without the cable connecting the CD-ROM and the sound card (a very cheap corner to cut IMHO). Windows handles this by extracting the audio data from the drive, rather than via this cable connection.

This is why the xmms-cdread plugin works - it has a "read digital cd audio" option (the default), which does the same thing.

If you want to use something other than XMMS and this plug-in to play CD audio, you will need to get the cable - cheap and trivial to install.

Incidentally, the cable isn't necessary for software that extracts cd data for the purposes of, say, ripping MP3s, as they also grab the audio as data right from the disk.

ejahn1 · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 66

I think your problem could be something else...because I'm experiencing it also. No, it's not the cable (I have it connected) and it's not the mixer's CD setting. I think it's a permissions/sound card module thing. I'll post when/if I figure it out...