Why gnome-cd is silient: web gossip

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Spreading gossip without validation is both dangerous and rude.  That
being said, I found the following while cruising the web:

        The problem here is that Gnome CD Player does not (yet) do
        digital audio extraction. Macintoshes (and many newer pcs) do
        not have an analog audio cable going from the cd drive to the
        sound card, which is what Gnome CD Player expects. Thus, modern
        machines such as these must read audio CDs as data and do the
        D/A conversion themselves instead of it happening in the CD-ROM
        drive.

It certainly makes sense, if it's true. In support, the version of
xmms-1.2.10-1 that I pulled from 

	http://www.xmms.org 

works on my G4 Silver only only when I select "Digital audio extraction"
when configuring "CD Audio Player 1.2.10 [libcdaudio.so]".

Can any one on the list validate this?


-Joseph

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