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[Ken Martwick <kenm AT surfbest.net>]

Thanks to all who gave me suggestions for playing CD's without a
cable. The scheme for piping the output of cdparanoia to play
suggested by someone whose message, sadly, I deleted worked very
well.  I dug further and found tha cdda2wav has an "echo" mode,
so it can be used all by itself.
Ken Martwick

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 04:12:19AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> On Mon, 9 May 2005, Ken Martwick wrote:
> 
> >I have recently become aware that newer PC's do not have an audio cable 
> >from the CD drive to the audio board if they were to be used with 
> >Microsnot Win.  Is there a common way to play CD's under Linux without a 
> >cable?
> 
> You would think it would be enough to omit serial port, floppy drive, and 
> ISA slots!
> 
> cdda2wav to rip the CD to one big fifo audio.wav, then 'play'?  On the 
> model of mplayer and play.  I had to use cdda2wav from SW81 instead of 71 
> to get around copy protection.  mplayer can also rip wav files, I think.
> 
> If your CD-ROM drive has a headphone jack and a play button, plug the 
> speakers in there and push the button.  This also gives you volume control 
> with the little wheel.
> 
> >Ken Martwick
> 
> Sindi
> 
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