Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Yes, I use source from HDtracks, ProStudio Masters, 7studio, Bowers & Wilkins Society of Sound, Primephonic, DSD, along Hi-Res 24-bit/192kHz capable equipment. I'm not a big fan of downloading mp3, I rather like to convert my own stuff to hear it in FLAC or AAC. Music in general this days are

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > Now I just want the damn thing to work For this reason I use Trinity Desktop ;-) - it just works - the old fashion way.

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > I'm looking for Improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), True 24-bit @ > 192kHz audio playback, no humans hear that, still I have hardware to do > some test with, low latency, players that doesn't click or pops, you > know, the good stuff. So you must know that the

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

I don't have space limitations around here, as long as it works. ;) Maybe I should move to another Linux distribution specific for my needs. http://www.ap-linux.com I don't know if is because I'm aging and now I've other priorities, I don't fell like messing with Linux too much. Before I used to

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Too bad I can't code, otherwise I would. Tried to learn a few years ago, all I see is "do this, do that, hello world" but I miss some kind of a logic behind it. Is just like OS's, if you get the logic behind it you can use any, it doesn't matter the brand. I'm looking for Improved signal-to-no

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > And still looking for a decent HQ audio option for linux, did I miss > something on mplayer? I think it depends on what you want to do with it. mplayer can be embedded, but it is just the engine. in the background there are (almost) the same plugins you would see

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 11:34:13PM -0300, Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > Sorry to bump in to this, but why not use players like vlc, Audacious or > Kodi? > > To me Audacious still kicking and works on Debian 9. > https://s9.postimg.org/ir3ta4kdb/Audacious.png Within dselect, I made a little te

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

I really want to know, not to argue. Something I should consider with mplayer? I design audio gear myself. http://i.imgur.com/rUpDHBG.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Xl8IqPV.jpg http://i.imgur.com/grEcWxl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/K8czc7U.jpg And still looking for a decent HQ audio option for linux, did I m

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > Please define quality, sound quality? > Where can I read more about it? > Can you equalize the sound on the fly? > Have you heard about mpv? > https://mpv.io/ I don't want to argue. Everybody is free to use what she/he find suitable. I don't care what mpv is as I

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Please define quality, sound quality? Where can I read more about it? Can you equalize the sound on the fly? Have you heard about mpv? https://mpv.io/ Em 8 de jul de 2017 04:02, "deloptes" escreveu: Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > Sorry to bump in to this, but why not use players like vlc, Au

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > Sorry to bump in to this, but why not use players like vlc, Audacious or > Kodi? Because they are ugly and not of same quality compared to mplayer

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Sorry to bump in to this, but why not use players like vlc, Audacious or Kodi? To me Audacious still kicking and works on Debian 9. https://s9.postimg.org/ir3ta4kdb/Audacious.png On 07-07-2017 17:27, Wilko Fokken wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 09:23:15AM +, Curt wrote: On 2017-06-29, Rodo

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 10:27:03PM +0200, Wilko Fokken wrote: > alias pulse='sudo kill -9 $(pidof pulseaudio) && alsamixer -c0' man pkill, and stop using -9

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 09:23:15AM +, Curt wrote: > On 2017-06-29, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Please help... mplayer works fine when playing files (mp3, wav, etc), but > > fails in playing audio CDs. When I launch it as a normal user I have: > > > > $ mplayer cdda:// > > MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian

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Brian writes: > On Sun 02 Jul 2017 at 15:10:34 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > On Sun 02 Jul 2017 at 09:29:25 +, Curt wrote: >> > >> >> On 2017-07-02, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> > >> >> >== >>

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Sun 02 Jul 2017 at 15:10:34 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Sun 02 Jul 2017 at 09:29:25 +, Curt wrote: > > > >> On 2017-07-02, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> > > >> >== > >> > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On 2017-07-02, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > No, neither > > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/0 mplayer ... ? > > nor > > export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="" > > did help... Well I'm still reading that "pulseaudio in normal user mode will allow only the active session as marked by ConsoleKit to access the audio har

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Brian writes: > On Sun 02 Jul 2017 at 09:29:25 +, Curt wrote: > >> On 2017-07-02, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> > >> >== >> > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/1000) is not owned by us (uid 0), but by uid >> > 1000! (This could e g

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Sun 02 Jul 2017 at 09:29:25 +, Curt wrote: > On 2017-07-02, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > >== > > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/1000) is not owned by us (uid 0), but by uid > > 1000! (This could e g happen if you try to co

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On 2017-07-02, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >== > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/1000) is not owned by us (uid 0), but by uid 1000! > (This could e g happen if you try to connect to a non-root PulseAudio as a > root user, over the na

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Rodolfo Medina writes: > David Wright writes: > >> On Sun 02 Jul 2017 at 00:29:13 (+0100), Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> Rodolfo Medina writes: >>> >>> > My output seems to be the same as yours: >>> > >>> > # ls -lR /dev/snd >>> > /dev/snd: >>> > total 0 >>> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jul

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

David Wright writes: > On Sun 02 Jul 2017 at 00:29:13 (+0100), Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Rodolfo Medina writes: >> >> > My output seems to be the same as yours: >> > >> > # ls -lR /dev/snd >> > /dev/snd: >> > total 0 >> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jul 1 23:55 by-path >> > crw-rw+ 1 r

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Sun 02 Jul 2017 at 00:29:13 (+0100), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > > > My output seems to be the same as yours: > > > > # ls -lR /dev/snd > > /dev/snd: > > total 0 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jul 1 23:55 by-path > > crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Jul 1 23:55 con

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Rodolfo Medina writes: > My output seems to be the same as yours: > > # ls -lR /dev/snd > /dev/snd: > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jul 1 23:55 by-path > crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Jul 1 23:55 controlC0 > crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Jul 1 23:55 controlC1 > crw-rw+ 1

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Thanks to all who kindly replied. David Wright writes: > Secondly, most of the error messages involved alsa rather > than the CD player. How does root get on with playing > sound files from other sources? Yes, the error message remains also with sound files, so it actually does not concern cdd

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Curt writes: > On 2017-07-01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> deloptes writes: >> >>> Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks... ;-) >>> >>> just to be clear. You have had setup an alias for mplayer, correct? So >>> everything people advised here was run via this alias 'mp

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 18:46:27 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 10:42:45 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 16:03:13 (+0100), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > deloptes writes: > > > > > > > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > > > > > >> Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks..

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Hi, Brian wrote: > Once Thomas Schmitt had disposed of the idea that mplayer requires a > cable between drive and sound card it comes down to software and not > hardware. To be exacting, i only doubted the idea. It got disposed by the report that a normal user (the desktop starting user ?) can ha

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 10:42:45 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 16:03:13 (+0100), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > deloptes writes: > > > > > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > > > >> Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks... ;-) > > > > > > just to be clear. You have had setup an alias for m

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 16:00:12 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2017-07-01, David Wright wrote: > > > > Secondly, most of the error messages involved alsa rather > > than the CD player. How does root get on with playing > > sound files from other sources? > > > > Actually, upon further reflection, the r

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On 2017-07-01, David Wright wrote: > > Secondly, most of the error messages involved alsa rather > than the CD player. How does root get on with playing > sound files from other sources? > Actually, upon further reflection, the root error message from his original post was: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/ru

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 16:03:13 (+0100), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > deloptes writes: > > > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > >> Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks... ;-) > > > > just to be clear. You have had setup an alias for mplayer, correct? So > > everything people advised here was run via this ali

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On 2017-07-01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > deloptes writes: > >> Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >>> Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks... ;-) >> >> just to be clear. You have had setup an alias for mplayer, correct? So >> everything people advised here was run via this alias 'mplayer -demuxer >> lavf'.

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

deloptes writes: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks... ;-) > > just to be clear. You have had setup an alias for mplayer, correct? So > everything people advised here was run via this alias 'mplayer -demuxer > lavf'. I'm sorry... I apologize. But the problem wi

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks... ;-) just to be clear. You have had setup an alias for mplayer, correct? So everything people advised here was run via this alias 'mplayer -demuxer lavf'. regards

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On 2017-07-01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> Oh, I see. There's something vaguely wild about this goose. > > Are you calling me stupid...? Thanks... ;-) > I'm not calling you stupid and you're not stupid, far from it. -- “Yeah yeah.” --Sidney Morgenbesser's retort to a speaker who said that alt

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Curt writes: > On 2017-07-01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Brian writes: >> > How about > > vlc cdda:// ? Yes, vlc works! >>> >>> Not quite what you wanted but you can now play an audio CD. >> >> Recently I noticed that mplayer, when playing audio CDs, is always >> compl

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On 2017-07-01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > >>> > How about >>> > >>> > vlc cdda:// ? >>> >>> Yes, vlc works! >> >> Not quite what you wanted but you can now play an audio CD. > > Recently I noticed that mplayer, when playing audio CDs, is always complaining > this way: When playin

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Rodolfo Medina writes: > Recently I noticed that mplayer, when playing audio CDs, is always > complaining this way: > > `Audio device got stuck!' > > , and sound continuosly `jumps' so becoming unheardable, and I thought it was > the device's hardware fault. The problem disappears running mplay

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Brian writes: >> > How about >> > >> > vlc cdda:// ? >> >> Yes, vlc works! > > Not quite what you wanted but you can now play an audio CD. Recently I noticed that mplayer, when playing audio CDs, is always complaining this way: `Audio device got stuck!' , and sound continuosly `jumps' so b

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 01:12:18 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Fri 30 Jun 2017 at 12:27:18 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > >> "Thomas Schmitt" writes: > >> > >> > Curt wrote: > >> >> mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/hdb cdda://1 > >> >> or wherever the device exists on your

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Brian writes: > On Fri 30 Jun 2017 at 12:27:18 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> "Thomas Schmitt" writes: >> >> > Curt wrote: >> >> mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/hdb cdda://1 >> >> or wherever the device exists on your machine. >> > >> > Unless on very old systems, i'd expect /dev/sr0, /dev/sr1,

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Fri 30 Jun 2017 at 12:27:18 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > "Thomas Schmitt" writes: > > > Curt wrote: > >> mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/hdb cdda://1 > >> or wherever the device exists on your machine. > > > > Unless on very old systems, i'd expect /dev/sr0, /dev/sr1, ... > > `mplayer -cdrom-d

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Curt wrote: >> mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/hdb cdda://1 >> or wherever the device exists on your machine. > > Unless on very old systems, i'd expect /dev/sr0, /dev/sr1, ... `mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/sr0 cdda://1' gives the same error output as `mplayer cdda://'. >

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On 2017-06-30, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Curt wrote: >> mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/hdb cdda://1 >> or wherever the device exists on your machine. > > Unless on very old systems, i'd expect /dev/sr0, /dev/sr1, ... > Or wherever the device exists on your machine. >> Maybe there's no audio c

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Hi, Curt wrote: > mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/hdb cdda://1 > or wherever the device exists on your machine. Unless on very old systems, i'd expect /dev/sr0, /dev/sr1, ... > Maybe there's no audio cable between the cd drive and the sound card. I doubt that mplayer would use the PLAY AUDIO comm

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Fri 30 Jun 2017 at 07:52:21 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > Please help...  mplayer works fine when playing files (mp3, wav, etc), but > > fails in playing audio CDs.  When I launch it as a normal user I have: > > check if you are member of the cdrom group It is worth n

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On 2017-06-29, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Please help... mplayer works fine when playing files (mp3, wav, etc), but > fails in playing audio CDs. When I launch it as a normal user I have: > > $ mplayer cdda:// > MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-6.3.0 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team > do_connect: c

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

deloptes writes: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Please help...  mplayer works fine when playing files (mp3, wav, etc), but >> fails in playing audio CDs.  When I launch it as a normal user I have: > > check if you are member of the cdrom group Yes, I am... Rodolfo

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Please help...  mplayer works fine when playing files (mp3, wav, etc), but > fails in playing audio CDs.  When I launch it as a normal user I have: check if you are member of the cdrom group regards

mplayer won't play audio CD

Please help... mplayer works fine when playing files (mp3, wav, etc), but fails in playing audio CDs. When I launch it as a normal user I have: $ mplayer cdda:// MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-6.3.0 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team do_connect: could not connect to socket connect: No such file