Playing audio CDs under Redhat 7.3

[Brad Hards]

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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 20:02, Rob Bolin wrote:
> I'm stumped. I want to listen to audio CDs (and use grip to make my own
> "jukebox" of favourite tunes) but I can't get a note out of the thing!
> I've tried to RTFM, or at least search the 'net for a solution, except
> that everything I've come across either suggests connecting the CD to
> the sound card directly (that ain't gonna happen!) or the page says a
> solution is possible without actually saying what the solution is...
The problem is essentially "how do I get information from the CD player to the 
speakers". That comes in two flavours:
* Configure sound card (or sound device) to use a special input, and turn on 
CD play function. You need a small four wire cable to connect the two. 
* Read CD as a data file, convert data file to some other format, and send 
that format to sound card.

The reason why you normally want to do the first is CPU load. However it gets 
hard if you don't have the cable, or can't connect it (eg USB speakers).

The second requires "ripping" the CDs to disk files (usually subsequenly 
converted into MP3 format, because it is fairly efficient storage format, but 
Ogg Vorbis is a better long term option), and then playing them. The normal 
tool to rip CDs is called cdparanoia  
(http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/manual.html) - I guess grip is some Gnome GUI 
front end.

HTH

Brad



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