I correct myself. I was using ide-cd.sys on another machine I was working with a couple weeks ago. On this machine I have been using the default uide.sys.
But pursuing the driver-as-a-suspect angle anyway, I found a Lite-on DOS driver and installed that. CD playing now works. Thank you for the idea, Eric!! If there is a sad note, it is that uide.sys has fallen short on two machines in a row. On the other one, I had no CD function at all. In this one, I had data CD function, but no audio CD. On 6/4/2015 2:06 PM, John Hupp wrote: > 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
