Re: Can't get audio CD to play in Fedora

From: Alex (alex_at_totallynerd.com)
Date: 05/04/04


Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 10:10:15 -0500

Ray Fortner wrote:

> Linux neophyte here. I can't seem to get the sound out of any of the CD
> players on my Compaq Presario (64-bit AMD chip) or Sony Vaio (P-4 chip).
> When I put an audio CD in, the player come up, id's the CD and track,
> appears to be playing, but no sound. Fedora recognizes the sound card,
> plays system sounds just fine, and CDs play well under Windows on both
> machines. Volume is up on both the Volume control applet and CD player, as
> well as the speakers system. Have tried all the players available.
>
> Is there a config file I need to tweak, or some system setting I'm
> missing? CD's do play on the Fedora installation on my HP laptop. Any
> help/suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks - Ray

Totally dumb question, but is your audio cable connected between the CD-ROM and sound card? Some
apps will read the data from the CD directly and don't require this cable, but others do. I'm not
sure which route the Windows or Linux apps take to play Audio CD's, but wouldn't hurt to verify this
is conneted.

FWIW,

Alex.



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