Re: Accessing CD drive from Linux applications

From: Larry Roberts (skin-e_at_juno.com)
Date: 06/28/04


Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 07:46:43 -0500

Larry Roberts wrote:

> I've got SuSE 9.1 installed now. I've been messing with the
> XMMS Audio Player that's bundled with the Personal Edition. I managed
> to install some plugins, and get them working with the player, but I
> can't seem to load up an audio CD with XMMS. When I try to load a dir
> into the playlist, I can't get to the CD drive. Only the Linux HDD,
> and Windows HDD are shown. How would I play my audio CDs through XMMS?
> It does have the CD Player plugin installed, and activated.

        I figured it out now. Seems the default directory setting in XMMS
need to be changed for the CD plugin. Once I set it to the correct
directory, it loaded the CD, and plays fine. Starting to like this OS
better, and better.



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