On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote: > > Semi-solved. > > On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer >> <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> >>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've >>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine. >>> >>> >>> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that >>> says: >>> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://" > I can now play an audio CD in kaffeine. I have no idea what I did! I > did add a couple of packages and because of this changed some use flags > and updated my system with --newuse, but that's all I did. > > However, I still cannot play a CD in kscd.
Hi Colleen, I didn't find it in this thread yet, but I am wondering if you have the CD-drive connected to the soundcard or not. Some applications will "rip" and play the cdda-tracks directly from the CD. Others will simply tell the CD-drive to play an audio-cd and have the cd-drive do the decoding. In the latter case, the audio-signal goes over a little cable from the cd-drive to the soundcard. -- Joost