Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you have only one CD drive, the CD will play with: > > > > cdda2wav -e -B -N > > > > Jörg > > On my system here the above command didn't result in any audio being > played, nor do I find any files left on disk. I suspect it's because > of the message: > > cdda2wav: Bad file descriptor. Cannot open sound device '/dev/dsp'. > > Now, I have a Virtualbox VM open running Windows NT where I was > watching a movie earlier. Possibly it still has /dev/dsp locked? > > mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -la /dev/dsp > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 14, 3 Oct 19 06:23 /dev/dsp > mark@c2stable ~ $
Well, then it may be impossible to create sound on your system in this state. > The listing below took about 1 minute to generate. Well, it did also _read_ the whole disk. cdda2wav was able to extract the audio data and would have produced sound in case that the audio devices was accessible. If I got the problem correctly, then other software was not able to find the right way to access the drive. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily