Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken-SOLVED
Thanks to all who replied and for the good advice and troubleshooting help. As is often the case, all of my problems were Operator Error and I have managed to get myself un-fubarred again. I can now play my audio cds using xmms, listen to NPR and BBC news on RealPlayer, and burn cds as user, using gcombust. It's been a frustrating exercise, but satisfying in the end. Thanks again for all the quick and helpful responses. -- Lonnie Sutton - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken
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Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken
Lonnie Sutton wrote: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 69616 invoked by uid 0); 12 Mar 2003 13:38:57 - Received: from unknown (HELO mail1.uswest.net) (63.226.138.1) by mpls-mailin-01.inet.qwest.net with SMTP; 12 Mar 2003 13:38:57 - Received: (qmail 34037 invoked by uid 0); 12 Mar 2003 13:38:57 - Received: from unknown (HELO murphy.debian.org) (65.125.64.134) by mail1.uswest.net with SMTP; 12 Mar 2003 13:38:56 - Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by murphy.debian.org (Postfix) with QMQP id C5FD21FD0D; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:14:23 -0600 (CST) Received: from mail.netspeed.com.au (mail.netspeed.com.au [203.31.48.12]) by murphy.debian.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D431F4A0 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:54:40 -0600 (CST) Received: from [203.33.171.57] by mail.light.net.au (NTMail 5.06.0016/NU0474.00.5bf8a63e) with ESMTP id sbkymcaa for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:54:12 +1100 Received: from thebox.bloog.ddts.net ([192.168.0.2]) by leserver.bloog.ddts.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18t3Xy-0002O7-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:33:18 +1100 Received: from rob by thebox.bloog.ddts.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18t3Xx-0007cY-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:33:17 +1100 Resent-Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:14:23 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:33:17 +1100 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old-Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Status: U X-UIDL: 1047476337.69622.7372.mpls-mailin-01.inet.qwest.net Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol=application/pgp-signature; boundary=WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.7 required=4.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive/latest/268165 X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 07:33:01PM -0800, Lonnie Sutton wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:52:03PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: Cd playing rpgorams like xmms-cdread and grip just ask the CD drive to play an audio CD, and they then start blitting the digital stream (or send analog audio directly) down a special cable to the sound card. Have you connected your cd drive to your soundcard? I have now, thanks, he says with a red face. As I mentioned in earlier replies, though the Gnome CD player, gtcd, now works OK, XMMS still does not see the audio CD. Since XMMS played audio CD's just fine using the ATAPI CD-R (which still shows up in dmesg, though the laser died), I have obviously gotten something simple screwed up. I'll keep trying. Oh, ok...Stupid question, but have you told xmms-cdread to use your other CD drive? You can set this in the preferences-audio i/o-input-cdaudio-player section. I'm the one asking the stupid questions in this thread. ;-) I have had the device set as /dev/cdrom and the ls -l /dev/cdrom shows: lrwxrwxrwx1 root audio 4 Mar 8 14:21 /dev/cdrom - scd0 the ls -l /dev/scd0 reports: brwxrwxr-x1 root cdburn11, 0 Jun 13 2001 /dev/scd0 There you can see where my confusion arises. I do not have an ATAPI device in the system anymore. It is an all SCSI system, with the CD burner/audio/data reader all the same device. dmesg reports the device as follows: Vendor: YAMAHAModel: CRW8824S Rev: 1.00 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Also, I have the sg module installed, and lsmod reports it as follows: sg 14960 0 so I note that under the Used column in the lsmod report that sg is reported with 0 use? ls -l /dev/sg0 reports: crw-rw1 root cdburn21, 0 Jun 13 2001 /dev/sg0 The group cdburn comes from the suggestion of the gcombust author for being enabling using gcombust as user rather than root. I still don't have everything set up correctly to permit me to burn. I changed the groups and permissions as he suggested, but still no joy as far as burning or cd playing. I haven't tried either of the above suggestions yet, but I did try to burn a CD from the command line, unsuccessfully. Not only was it an unsuccessful attempt, but I locked up my machine hard. First time I have done that in a long time. cdrecord started out OK
Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 07:33:01PM -0800, Lonnie Sutton wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:52:03PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
Cd playing rpgorams like xmms-cdread and grip just ask the CD drive to
play an audio CD, and they then start blitting the digital stream (or
send analog audio directly) down a special cable to the sound card.
Have you connected your cd drive to your soundcard?
I have now, thanks, he says with a red face. As I mentioned in earlier
replies, though the Gnome CD player, gtcd, now works OK, XMMS still does
not see the audio CD. Since XMMS played audio CD's just fine using the
ATAPI CD-R (which still shows up in dmesg, though the laser died), I
have obviously gotten something simple screwed up. I'll keep trying.
Oh, ok...Stupid question, but have you told xmms-cdread to use your
other CD drive? You can set this in the preferences-audio
i/o-input-cdaudio-player section.
I haven't tried either of the above suggestions yet, but I did try to
burn a CD from the command line, unsuccessfully. Not only was it an
unsuccessful attempt, but I locked up my machine hard. First time I have
done that in a long time. cdrecord started out OK, and reported all
the correct data re the drive, media and iso file, but just after the
warning that the burn would start, and it reported the buffer was ready,
there was a message re OPC and then the machine locked up, with the
hard drive light on, and of course, nothing burned. Scanbus reports the
hard drives and the burner correctly. When I check dmesg, the burner is
reported as sr0, and identified correctly.
Gah, that's odd. If you've loaded ide-scsi, sg and sr_mod in the
correct order, it should Just Work. If cdrecord sees it as a SCSI
device, then I'd say you've got that part right already...
When I look in /proc/devices both sr and sg are shown as block
devices. If I do a ls -l for the devices, I get the following:
lrwxrwxrwx1 root cdrom 4 Mar 8 14:21 /dev/cdrom -
scd0
brw-rw1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jun 13 2001 /dev/scd0
crw---1 root root 21, 0 Jun 13 2001 /dev/sg0
brw-rw-rw-1 root cdrom 11, 0 Mar 5 19:57 /dev/sr0
Do I need to have two devices at work here, i.e., scd0 for the reader
and scd1 for the burner?
Are you using devfs? If not, then you'll have an enormous number of
device nodes in /dev that don't correspond to installed hardware. Even
if you are, the device naming is a little odd. scd0 will be the first
scsi cd drive, and sg0 will be the first generic SCSI device.
Unfortunately, depending on how your system is setup, sg0 and scd0 may
not be referring to the same physical drive. It'd depend on the physical
arrangement of your disks, which I can't remember from the original
question :)
Either way, you'll have an scdX device for each cd reader, and an sgN
driver for each generic scsi device (which is probably only your cd
burner).
One last piece of information for this mix is that when I try to use
RealPlayer, which also worked just fine (RealPlayer8) until this recent
development, I get the error message Cannot open the audio device.
Another application may be using it. This even though there is no audio
device being used that I am aware of.
You can check with 'fuser -v /dev/dsp' and 'fuser -v /dex/mixer', and
it'll list whichever programs have them open.
I tried both of these commands as root after getting the same error
message with RealPlayer, and neither returned anything. Since RealPlayer
worked the other day, not sure what has gotten munged up.
No idea about this, then. Unless the permissions on
/dev/{dsp,audio,mixer} have got messed up somehow; they should be owned
by root.audio, with crw-rw.
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Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken
* Lonnie Sutton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mar 08. 2003 21:28]: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:05:25AM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: Package: xmms-cdread . Description: Input plugin for XMMS that reads audio data from CDs XMMS Input plugin which will read an audio CD as data and play it in realtime. This allows XMMS to use an audio CD for visualization, and also lets you play an audio cd from a drive which does not have an audio cd cable connected. Brian, Hi Lonnie. Thanks for your help. As you may have seen in my reply to Michael, I had *not* changed the audio cable from the defunct drive to the burner drive, as I should have. It is now done, and as I said, it works using the Gnome player, gtcd. However, still no joy using XMMS. One small point of clarification: (see output of `apt-cache show xmms-cdread', above.) This allows XMMS to use an audio CD for visualization, and also lets you play an audio cd from a drive which does not have an audio cd cable connected. Just so you know, I have xmms playing CDs from a CD-ROM without an audio cable connected to the sound card, so I can say for sure that it works as advertised. :-) -- Brian Clark | Debian GNU/Linux: 3950 packages to keep you busy. Fingerprint: 07CE FA37 8DF6 A109 8119 076B B5A2 E5FB E4D0 C7C8 Warning: you are logged into reality as root. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:06:49PM +0100, Stephen Cormier wrote: On March 9, 2003 03:01 am, Lonnie Sutton wrote: Also, there is a symlink /dev/cdrom - /dec/scd0. Did you check the permissons on the /dev/scd0 I had the same problem and I just had to chmod +rwx /dev/scd0 and now CD's play perfectly in XMMS. -- May the source be with you! Stephen Cormier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steven, Thanks for your suggestion. I had already checked the permissions and they were as you suggest they should be. Still no joy, so not sure what to try next, but I will keep searching this week. All the best. -- Lonnie Sutton - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:51:29AM -0500, Michael Waters wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 19:04 -0800, Lonnie Sutton wrote: I am using Woody 3.0 and XMMS 1.2.7 and until recently had both a SCSI CD Burner and an IDE CDROM that I used for normally reading data and playing CD's, using XMMS. My IDE CDROM recently died, so I thought I would just change my fstab to point to the SCSI burner and use that for the CD's I wanted to play. While XMMS plays streams OK, such as Shoutcast, it does not see the CD player. Just to add to the confusion, I tried to play a CD using Gnome's gtcd player. It sees the CD I want to listen to, and says it is playing it, but no sound. I made sure that the CD burner had group CDROM and I am listed as belonging to that group. Is the cd audio cable attached to the soundcard? :) Is there a link /dev/cdrom - /dev/scd0 Michael ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, with a *very* red face, the cd audio cable is *now* attached to the soundcard. ;-) Also, there is a symlink /dev/cdrom - /dec/scd0. However, XMMS still does not see the audio cd. gtcd now works OK. Not sure what to do next, but will keep playing around. Thanks for your reply and your help. -- Lonnie Sutton - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:05:25AM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: * Michael Waters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mar 07. 2003 02:10]: Is the cd audio cable attached to the soundcard? :) Also, note the last line: Package: xmms-cdread . Description: Input plugin for XMMS that reads audio data from CDs XMMS Input plugin which will read an audio CD as data and play it in realtime. This allows XMMS to use an audio CD for visualization, and also lets you play an audio cd from a drive which does not have an audio cd cable connected. -- Brian Clark | Debian GNU/Linux: 3950 packages to keep you busy. Fingerprint: 07CE FA37 8DF6 A109 8119 076B B5A2 E5FB E4D0 C7C8 It's getting about time to leave everywhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian, Thanks for your help. As you may have seen in my reply to Michael, I had *not* changed the audio cable from the defunct drive to the burner drive, as I should have. It is now done, and as I said, it works using the Gnome player, gtcd. However, still no joy using XMMS. -- Lonnie Sutton - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On March 9, 2003 03:01 am, Lonnie Sutton wrote: Also, there is a symlink /dev/cdrom - /dec/scd0. Did you check the permissons on the /dev/scd0 I had the same problem and I just had to chmod +rwx /dev/scd0 and now CD's play perfectly in XMMS. -- May the source be with you! Stephen Cormier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 06:07:22PM -0800, Lonnie Sutton wrote: Thanks for your help. As you may have seen in my reply to Michael, I had *not* changed the audio cable from the defunct drive to the burner drive, as I should have. It is now done, and as I said, it works using the Gnome player, gtcd. However, still no joy using XMMS. I too have observed this. I have a cdwriter and a plain cd. Am using ide-scsi on both the drives. Could not get ide-scsi to ignore the plain drive. Xmms never recognised the plain cd-drive as an audio cd-drive. If you have a kernel without ide-scsi support, try xmms under that. You might succeed in playing audio cd's off that drive. Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. To see you is to sympathize. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:52:03PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:04:09PM -0800, Lonnie Sutton wrote:
I am using Woody 3.0 and XMMS 1.2.7 and until recently had both a SCSI
CD Burner and an IDE CDROM that I used for normally reading data and
playing CD's, using XMMS. My IDE CDROM recently died, so I thought I
would just change my fstab to point to the SCSI burner and use that for
the CD's I wanted to play. While XMMS plays streams OK, such as
Shoutcast, it does not see the CD player. Just to add to the confusion,
I tried to play a CD using Gnome's gtcd player. It sees the CD I want to
listen to, and says it is playing it, but no sound. I made sure that the
CD burner had group CDROM and I am listed as belonging to that group.
Cd playing rpgorams like xmms-cdread and grip just ask the CD drive to
play an audio CD, and they then start blitting the digital stream (or
send analog audio directly) down a special cable to the sound card.
Have you connected your cd drive to your soundcard?
I have now, thanks, he says with a red face. As I mentioned in earlier
replies, though the Gnome CD player, gtcd, now works OK, XMMS still does
not see the audio CD. Since XMMS played audio CD's just fine using the
ATAPI CD-R (which still shows up in dmesg, though the laser died), I
have obviously gotten something simple screwed up. I'll keep trying.
As long as I am talking about problems with the CD Burner, I should
mention that I have not gotten gcombust to work either. It tells me that
I am not using cdrecord as root, which is true, I am trying to burn a CD
as a user.
Install sudo, and use it. Or give your user rw access to the generic
SCSI devices (/dev/sg{0.1}) and deal with the consequences (like
possibly not being able to burn at high speeds, since cdrecord can't
alter it's priority or lock pages in RAM and such...it should still work
on a 'reasonable' system)...it sucks either way :/
I haven't tried either of the above suggestions yet, but I did try to
burn a CD from the command line, unsuccessfully. Not only was it an
unsuccessful attempt, but I locked up my machine hard. First time I have
done that in a long time. cdrecord started out OK, and reported all
the correct data re the drive, media and iso file, but just after the
warning that the burn would start, and it reported the buffer was ready,
there was a message re OPC and then the machine locked up, with the
hard drive light on, and of course, nothing burned. Scanbus reports the
hard drives and the burner correctly. When I check dmesg, the burner is
reported as sr0, and identified correctly.
I should mention that I can read data from the SCSI burner without any
problem, so I believe the fstab is OK.
Yep, but cdrecord doesn't know or care about fstab, it uses the 'generic
SCSI' devices instead of particular disks.
When I look in /proc/devices both sr and sg are shown as block
devices. If I do a ls -l for the devices, I get the following:
lrwxrwxrwx1 root cdrom 4 Mar 8 14:21 /dev/cdrom -
scd0
brw-rw1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jun 13 2001 /dev/scd0
crw---1 root root 21, 0 Jun 13 2001 /dev/sg0
brw-rw-rw-1 root cdrom 11, 0 Mar 5 19:57 /dev/sr0
Do I need to have two devices at work here, i.e., scd0 for the reader
and scd1 for the burner?
One last piece of information for this mix is that when I try to use
RealPlayer, which also worked just fine (RealPlayer8) until this recent
development, I get the error message Cannot open the audio device.
Another application may be using it. This even though there is no audio
device being used that I am aware of.
You can check with 'fuser -v /dev/dsp' and 'fuser -v /dex/mixer', and
it'll list whichever programs have them open.
I tried both of these commands as root after getting the same error
message with RealPlayer, and neither returned anything. Since RealPlayer
worked the other day, not sure what has gotten munged up.
Thanks in advance for any advice or help. I have read all the README's
and FM's I could find.
Hmm, yeah, this sort of stuff is more common folk-knowledge than stuff
that anyone's written down...
Thanks again for all of the help and suggestions.
/me gets an idea for the weekend
Hope your weekend has been a great one and your idea worked out as you
planned. It has been a very cold, damp day here, so not a bad day to be
messing about with computers and troubleshooting, even if all not
solved. At least I have one more day of the weekend to go, and to work
around with this problem. Not sure what I will try next, but I will do a
little more reading and see what I can work out.
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Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken
* Michael Waters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mar 07. 2003 02:10]: Is the cd audio cable attached to the soundcard? :) Also, note the last line: Package: xmms-cdread . Description: Input plugin for XMMS that reads audio data from CDs XMMS Input plugin which will read an audio CD as data and play it in realtime. This allows XMMS to use an audio CD for visualization, and also lets you play an audio cd from a drive which does not have an audio cd cable connected. -- Brian Clark | Debian GNU/Linux: 3950 packages to keep you busy. Fingerprint: 07CE FA37 8DF6 A109 8119 076B B5A2 E5FB E4D0 C7C8 It's getting about time to leave everywhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XMMS and CD Audio Broken
I am using Woody 3.0 and XMMS 1.2.7 and until recently had both a SCSI CD Burner and an IDE CDROM that I used for normally reading data and playing CD's, using XMMS. My IDE CDROM recently died, so I thought I would just change my fstab to point to the SCSI burner and use that for the CD's I wanted to play. While XMMS plays streams OK, such as Shoutcast, it does not see the CD player. Just to add to the confusion, I tried to play a CD using Gnome's gtcd player. It sees the CD I want to listen to, and says it is playing it, but no sound. I made sure that the CD burner had group CDROM and I am listed as belonging to that group. I have not installed Gnome or KDE, as I am using WindowMaker and like it a lot. As long as I am talking about problems with the CD Burner, I should mention that I have not gotten gcombust to work either. It tells me that I am not using cdrecord as root, which is true, I am trying to burn a CD as a user. I should mention that I can read data from the SCSI burner without any problem, so I believe the fstab is OK. One last piece of information for this mix is that when I try to use RealPlayer, which also worked just fine (RealPlayer8) until this recent development, I get the error message Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it. This even though there is no audio device being used that I am aware of. Any sound gurus that can point me in a useful troubleshooting direction? Thanks in advance for any advice or help. I have read all the README's and FM's I could find. -- Lonnie Sutton - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 19:04 -0800, Lonnie Sutton wrote: I am using Woody 3.0 and XMMS 1.2.7 and until recently had both a SCSI CD Burner and an IDE CDROM that I used for normally reading data and playing CD's, using XMMS. My IDE CDROM recently died, so I thought I would just change my fstab to point to the SCSI burner and use that for the CD's I wanted to play. While XMMS plays streams OK, such as Shoutcast, it does not see the CD player. Just to add to the confusion, I tried to play a CD using Gnome's gtcd player. It sees the CD I want to listen to, and says it is playing it, but no sound. I made sure that the CD burner had group CDROM and I am listed as belonging to that group. Is the cd audio cable attached to the soundcard? :) Is there a link /dev/cdrom - /dev/scd0 Michael ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
