Thanks for the clarifications. I could add though, that I tried "CDROM2 PLAY01 F:" and it responded with something like "F: is not an audio drive, but < F: > is."
The CD-ROM cable is known working (confirmed via Win 98), and I turned up the CD volume in the sound card mixer. But it may be that the drive lacks the built-in audio playing function that your program requires. It has a headphone jack and volume dial, but no Play/Stop/Next/Previous controls like older drives did. (It's a 48x CD-ROM, a Lite-on LTN-485S manufactured in 2000.) I hadn't thought about the CD driver as a suspect. A couple weeks ago I had a thread named "For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready" in which I detailed my struggles with getting a working configuration. I'm currently using a driver named ide-cd.sys. I don't know where it came from originally, but I used it successfully on a machine a few years ago. Your "alternative way" is also referred to as digital audio extraction? I understood from Mateusz Viste that mpxplay will do that, though I don't know how and haven't pursued that. I think it may require a plugin (CDW). He also said it would draw more heavily on the CPU -- and this machine only has a Pentium 150. On 6/4/2015 1:13 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > >> With cdrom2ui, I ran these two commands: >>> CDROM2 PLAY01 < F: > >>> CDROM PLAY01 < F: > >> In both cases it responded "Error reading from drive F: data area: >> drive not ready." > Only the larger CDROM2 tool supports audio commands > and you have to omit the < >, so the proper command > would be: "CDROM2 PLAY01 F:" However, this only tells > the drive to use the built-in audio playing function > which modern drives might lack. The sound gets output > to the headphone jack of your CD drive (if it has the > connector) and the output for 3- or 4-pin cables to > your soundcard or mainboard (if it has that). If you > use the latter output, you also have to have a cable > connected and the volume control on your soundcard > properly set. Last but not least, not all drivers of > CD/DVD/BluRay drives might support audio commands. > > The alternative way is to read out the raw audio data > and then either store that as WAV, convert it to OGG > or MP3, or play it directly. I think this is now the > more common way of accessing audio on CD via a PC :-) > > Regards, Eric > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
