[TriLUG] Playing CD's without an audio cable?

[Andrew Perrin]

Got it, thanks. I got somewhere, but now the xmms player silently dies 
when I try to play the CD. Oh well... keep trying!

ap

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Josh Vickery wrote:

> Digital Audio Extraction (DAE) has more or less replaced the audio
> cable.  I'm not familiar with xmcd, but xmms, for instance, has a "use
> DAE" checkbox under the CD player options.
>
> Josh
>
> On 10/12/06, Andrew Perrin <clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu> wrote:
>> My new office computer (an IBM ThinkCentre 8212-UN7) has a CD-ROM drive,
>> but no audio cable comes out the back of it, and there's no place on the
>> motherboard to plug one into it.  Predictably enough, when I bring up a cd
>> player (e.g., xmcd), I get no audio output, but cdda2wav produces a
>> perfectly fine audio file.
>> 
>> Is there some new standard for CD playing that doesn't require this cable?
>> Is there some new software I should be using?
>> 
>> ap
>> 
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>> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
>> Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
>> University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
>> New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl
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