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 Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2025 12:45 pm Post subject: Any programs that play CD's? |
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Ok, I need a program to play cd's on my laptops now that xmms is gone from Debian SID. I've tried a bunch, but none of them work properly:
Kscd-cannot play digital stream, since laptops don't have an actual audio cable
Amarok-You can set it to play random, but it still plays track 1-end in order
Kaffeine-Same as Amarok
Xmms2-never quite figured out how to get it to work. I downloaded like 5 clients, they just sat and complained about various things. Never did manage to get a squak out of it.
Banshee-Couldn't figure out how to get it to play cd's if it even has the ability
Can anyone offer any assistance?
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2025 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| WooHoo!! I found one. lsongs (who would think that something from the Linspire project would be so good) is capable of actually playing cd's randomly. I installed almost every single audio application in the repos for Debian sid, and they all fail at such simple thing as playing a cd. Sad.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2025 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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audacious is as close as you can get to xmms.
Edit: But I can't get it to play my cd's though._________________ antiX
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not concerned about being close to xmms. I just want something that is able to play cd's on a laptop (which requires the ability to do the digital extraction) and will play it randomly (which for some reason most programs won't do with a cd).
While lsongs is definitely NOT a pretty program, it at least meets those 2 requirements, so it's going to be sticking around on my machines.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2025 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| kscd should work fine. digital goes through the IDE cable. The audio cable is analog.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2025 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Ah, Germ, that's an idea.......tlmiller, getting CD's to play should be easier if you have BOTH the IDE and the Analog cables attached, because then it gives you two options and you can use whatever's easiest. I know that I struggled with playing CD's until I added an analog cable.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2025 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Germ wrote: | | kscd should work fine. digital goes through the IDE cable. The audio cable is analog. |
From what I can tell it uses analog stream to play. It fails on every laptop I've ever tried on, but works on my desktops that DO have the audio cable.
That was the original program I wanted to use. Small, simple, and does the job.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2025 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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| It will do analog or digital. You have to go into the settings to tell it which one. If I recall correctly, there is a specific check box to tell it to use digital. If it's unchecked, it uses analog.
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I'll have to look again, I couldn't find that setting when I looked before, because I figured it would have that.
edit - yup, saw it this time. That's exactly what I was looking for, just missed it when I looked before.
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