static playing audioCDs YDL2.3 Tibook2002

[Andrew Hodel]

I have already been through the exact same problem, just with mp3's, I ne=
ver=20
tried an audio cd.  What I had to do to fix it was this, every time I wan=
ted=20
to use xmms, I would kill the artsd process and start up esd, then just=20
select the esd plugin for xmms.  For the apple volume controls, the probl=
em I=20
had was it would start out the volume at somewhere areound 80 percent, wh=
at I=20
would do was just to turn the volume all the way down to about 10 percent=
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before playing any sounds, and then the volume controls worked normally, =
as=20
long as you didn't go above 50 percent or so, I suppose this is a bug wit=
h=20
too much amplification going to the speakers which would make them do ver=
y=20
funny things.  This was all way to much of a hassle for me so what I did =
in=20
the end was to just use gnome, it uses OSS so all of my main problems wen=
t=20
away, but I still must turn the apple volume controls down to about 10=20
percent to get them to work correctly, this is on each reboot.  This work=
ed=20
for me because the only kde proggy I used was kmail, and now I just use k=
mail=20
in gnome.  My suggesstion would be to switch.


On Wednesday 02 October 2002 01:56, A R wrote:
> Dear Group,
> I'd like to know the current status and perhaps
> pointers to workarounds for playing audio CDs within
> YDL2.3.
>
> Let me say in advance:  thanks for any constructive
> help you can provide.  If I have missed something
> I should have found in documentation or the web,
> I'll be happy to find out about it.
>
> 1. kscd and gcd do not work for me.  I hear silence.
> 2. I then ran xmms and played an audioCD successfully
>    once.  No volume control via xmms or keyboard keys,
>    but this was clearly
>    progress.  (If I ever get back to this point, I
>    suppose I will try kmixer or other tricks to
> control
>    volume level.)
> 3. I then did two things, one of which messed me up:
>    a) I followed the instructions in the URL
> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/sound.shtml
>    b) I turned on the xmms equalizer, played with it
>       and turned it off
> 4. After this, I hear nothing but static from the
>    audioCD.  I have retraced my steps and tried to
> undo
>    3a) and 3b), but I cannot get back to hearing
> music.
>    I only hear white noise static from audioCDs.
> 5. I can still do cdda2wav and hear wav's through xmms
>    just fine.  This shows the CD is being read etc.
>    Not really a feasible long-term workaround!
>
> I have read all the postings from April 2002
> concerning
> endianness, and I think I understand them.  However,
> I think that the YDL 2.3 version of xmms has this
> problem fixed.  Is there another culprit that I should
> root out?  I ran apt-get last night, and I confirmed
> that the YDL 2.3 versions of the xmms packages are
> still
> the most up to date.
>
> Thanks again,
> Andrew
>
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