Why gnome-cd is silient: web gossip

[Andrew]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 16:15, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:

> 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.

Well, mine does have such cable. Its a factory original MATSHITA CR-585
(alias: ATAPI 24X). Checking the back of the CD drive let me with
perplexed thoughts as these is two male plugs back there...
 One is marked as 'Digital Audio' and has two pins: D and G. It is NOT
plugged... 
 The other is marked as 'Analog Audio' and has 4 pins: R, G, G and L.
This one has a cable that connect to a two pins plug on the motherboard
(!!). 

> 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?

I do. There is audio-cd output only when using 'Digital audio
extraction'. The other option (analog) give no sound even tho the 'busy'
light is ON (on the CD drive) and the time is going up in xmms as well
as the track's position slider... In other words: all seam to work but
there is no audible output.