For this tale, I will be labelled both a winTroll and a linTroll.

It doesn't matter -- I support Linux 100%, so I will tell you it anyway.

I brought in my CD, 'Speakerboxxxxx' by OutKast to play at work.

Ok, I usually use my rh linux box to play music and it's usually
the Ogg streams on Virgin. I play my CDs at the apartment on my
rh 9 laptop and it works fine.

Sooooo, I put it in my rh9 workstation and the CD Player automatically
runs, but no sound. And the playlist doesn't appear.

So, I try xmms. Nothing.

Ok, I say -- I can probably fix it with a tweak, but lets give the
other side a chance. I pop it into my w2k machine with wmp 9.
Nice interface --- but on a Celeron with 256M, the thing is dammmm
slo. dammm slo. Ok, i could, copy the cd to MyMusic folder and
it takes like --- forever.... Ok, finally, after copying two CDs,
I press play -- and, well it doesn't sound right. it's real high
pitched,,,,,and in fact, it sounds like the Chipmunks -- playing back
too fast (!)

so, I go to the Dell update to see if my drivers are ok. I do an update.
it tells me to reboot. i do. i open wmp ( and of course, since
w2k and wmp run so slow this takes like 15 minutes ). and it's still
playing WRONG. then i give real player one a chance. ITS EVEN
SLOWER (!!!). And after having it 'search' for my files, and queing up
one to play == same thing -- chipmunks.

Ok, back to Linux. I use xmms. I can see the cd playing, but no
sound. No movement on equalizer. I do some googling and people
tell me its because CDs are analog or something and i need a wire
to my mother board and like no way am i doing all that shit.

Sooooo, i read more and everyone's talking about using cdreader -- and i
have a .so thats a CD Audio --- is it the same, guess not. Look around,
get the sources for xmms-cdread, and make -- no dice, i need the xmms
headers. ok, can i get a compiled .so ? yea, no problem, download
and restart xmms (do i need to ? ) and there it is (!!!).

And now I'm listening to my Cd.

So the answer seems to be BOTH css and oss require LOTS of configuration
and that's just the way it tis.

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:16:15 +0000, John Bailo wrote:


Good for you. It certainly took you long enough.

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On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:16:15 +0000, John Bailo wrote:

[nothing interesting]

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Rick wrote:
illiterate gutter snipe

John Bailo wrote:

Linux makes you stupid.



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John Bailo wrote:

Linux makes you stupid.

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Kadaitcha Man wrote:
yes

John Bailo <jabailo@earthlink.net> wrote:
You're the one who didn't even realise you need an audio cable from your
cd to your soundcard.

spike1@freenet.co.uk wrote:
The point is you don't. The hardware way, as you point out is
to put the cable on, but wmp doesn't require it because it
reads the cd tracks a data and plays them as such. xmms will do that
but only with cd reader library installed and it's not part of the rh9
xmms standard install (not is the mp3 player library) so it has
to be built from source or acquired from rpm as xmms-cdread.

Capese ?

John Bailo wrote:

And what good does it do to /play/ a CD that way? You hog the data bus, and
in addition need lots more CPU power. It is certainly the most stupid way
to play a CD on a computer.
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John Bailo <jabailo@earthlink.net> wrote:
And wow, didn't it take a long time to rip, and the not play at all well in
windows?

Alternatively, you could just use a CD ripper and then play the resulting
ogg or mp3 in xmms...
Ever heard of abcde? rather nice, that.

"John Bailo" <jbailo@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<d67268c443a3c5db1e2245355339a031@news.terane ws.com>...
[deletia]

No, you're just an idiot. You refuse to use a piece of hardware
as it was intended to be used and then act surprised when it
doesn't work as expected.