[MPlayer-users] Audio CDs

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thank you!  I read the manpage again and again but never saw that in it and didn't think to look at cdparanoia's page!  This was built against CD parnoia.

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:19:25 -0600 (CST)
Frederick Bruckman <fredb at immanent.net> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > As I understand it Mplayer is supposed to play audio CDs (yes, I see the docs recommend XMMS but I want to use Mplayer - or at least try it <G>).
> > How do I do play an audio CD.  I've read the docs, man pages and tried various command lines.
> 
> 1) Build against cdparanoia. It's detected automatically if installed
> to the same destination as mplayer, otherwise see the help for
> configure...
> 
> 2) Then
> 
> 	mplayer cdda://3 -cache 1024
> 
> will play only the second track,
> 
>  	mplayer cddb://1- -cache 1024
> 
> will, if connected to the internet, look up and display the title of
> the CD and song titles, then play the whole CD beginning with track 1.
> The body of the URL is the "span" in the cdparanoia man page. You can
> specify tracks, ranges of tracks or time specs.
> 
> Find cdparanoia at
> 
> 	 http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/download/
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Frederick
> 
> 
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Brett I. Holcomb