Re: KsCD / Drive Association

From: D.S. (donstock_at_nospamcox.net)
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 10:48:43 -0600

Lenard wrote:
> D.S. wrote:
>
>
>>D.S. wrote:
>>
>>>I'm running Fedore Core 3, I have a CDROM and DVD player drive. When
>>>I load an audio CD in the CDROM, KsCD will not play it, only when I
>>>load
>>>it in the DVD player. Can someone please tell me how to associate
>>>KsCD with the CDROM?
>>
>>I found information to help here,
>>http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Mar/2013.html
>>
>>I don't completely understand, but there seems to be two CD's in the
>>/dev directory; cdrom & cdrom1. The KsCD player was configured for
>>the cdrom drive, once I changed it to cdrom1, it seems to work as
>>expected.
>> It will now play when the Audio CD is in the CDRW drive rather than
>>the DVD player.
>>
>
>
> You said that you have two cdrom devices, your CDROM drive and your DVD
> drive. The devices /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom1 are the standard device
> names for these devices(CD/CDRW/DVD/DVDRW etc.).
>
> Check this by typing from the console or xterm session;
>
> ls -l /dev/cdrom*
>
> cdrecord -scanbus
> (you might have to be root or equivalent for this command)
>
>
> It sounds like you may only have an audio cable (small round 3/4 wires)
> connected from the DVD drive to the input of sound device interface and
> no audio cable attached to the CDROM drive. Normally Linux 'CD players'
> attempt to play audio CDs via this cable (analog playback).
>
> In KsCD (depending on the KDE version you have installed) it might be
> possible to configure KsCD (Extras button) to play audio CDs digitally
> (Use direct digital playback -- no audio cable needed). This makes it
> possible to play the audio CDs in either cdrom device by using the KsCD
> Extras button and changing the device to the one you want.
>
> Personally I use Audio Player (xmms) and after modifing xmms to see/use
> both cdrom devices and play audio Cds digitally by using the Shift+L
> (play Directory) and selecting the which directory(devicereally) the
> audio CD is inserted into.
>
> Start the Audio Player (xmms) and press the key combo of Ctrl+P
>
> Select the Input plugin: CD Audio Player and click on the Configure
> Button. Select Play mode: Digital audio extraction and press the OK
> button.
>
> Press the Configure button again then click on the Add drive button and
> add your other cdrom (cdrom1???) device (hint the directory will be
> similar to the first device) and use Digital audio extraction play mode
> for this device also and click on OK. When done click on Apply button
> then the OK button.
>
>

Thanks for the help. The command you suggested <cdrecord -scanbus>
confirmed my suspicions about the order of the drives.

scsibus1:
         1,0,0 100) 'CREATIVE' 'DVD-ROM DVD1610E' 'GCH2' Removable CD-ROM
         1,1,0 101) 'TDK ' 'CDRW4800B ' 'S7D5' Removable CD-ROM
         1,2,0 102) *
         1,3,0 103) *
         1,4,0 104) *
         1,5,0 105) *
         1,6,0 106) *
         1,7,0 107) *

I'll play around a little with the XMMS player as you suggested, in the
mean time, I do have KsCD working satisfactorily.