[wplug] My silent cd player

[J Aaron Farr]

--- "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 @ 3:28pm (-0400), Nathan Powell wrote:
> 
> NP> >Other CD players don't make the drive play, but instead read the audio
> NP> > >digitally and send it to the sound card. If the little bars in XMMS
> are
> NP> > >moving, then it is doing that.
> NP> >
> NP> >
> NP> >.................................. I don't know what XP does.
> NP> >
> NP>
> NP> Windows XP can play cd's in digital and analog modes. I think digital
> mode
> NP> is default though, i would think for better sounbd quality.
> 
> ....better quality CD sound and massive wasted bandwidth on the I/O bus.
> 
> Don't forget that most CD players have an internal volume mixer for the DAC
> in addition to the CD input volume on the soundcard.  You might also avoid
> using XMMS to play CDs...it is really worth 15 meg of memory to play CDs?
> try something like cdp instead.
> 
> -lava
> 

I should clarify that I'm _not_ using XMMS to play CDs.  I'm using XMMS to play
MP3's.  Nothing currently seems able to play CDs properly.  I just got home
though, so I'm going to try out some things and I'll post what I find out.

jaaron

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