Okay...that solution works! Of course, now my volume is very loud. How do I deal with that? :-) Too bad about the arts stuff, though. I'll head on over to kde and complain on that bug...
Thanks for your help! Russell On Friday 14 March 2003 11:40 am, Frank Murphy wrote: > I tried to solve this problem this week as well. It seems that it's not > possible to play audio CDs in KDE (through arts) on NewWorld ppc machines. > > KsCD doesn't actually read the CD data, but controls the track movement and > relies on the CD/soundcard direct connection (which doesn't exist on > NewWorld macs). So it's silence. (See KDE bug #44216, and vote on it!) > > It seems that the only GUI music player to support reading the data from > the CD itself is xmms. (Install the xmms-cdread module and activate it in > xmms.) However, while there is an xmmsarts package as well, it wasn't > written with endian issues in mind. So trying to use it ends up with white > noise. > > Actually, there is a workaround to the xmmsarts problem. Call xmms with the > artsdsp program, like so: > > $ artsdsp xmms > > Then configure xmms to use the normal OSS output. > > Also, supposedly noatun supports cd playing as well. Type in > "audiocd:/dev/cdrom" in the file selection dialog. It seems to want to rip > all the tracks before playing though. > > But, there is no clean way to play audio CDs with arts. > > Frank