An mplayer audio CD script (cdmp) [was Re: audio error in VLC]

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Peter Garrett <
peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:16:55 -0700
> "David Fox" <dfox94085 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Peter Garrett
> > <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > > The cdda:// option for mplayer is separate, as is the device option.
> > > Try something like:
> > >
> > > mplayer  -cache 500 -cdda speed=1 cdda://1 -cdrom-device  /dev/scd0
> >
> > Thanks. Learn something new every day - now if  I could only remember
> > it. I wish this was a bit better documented. But anyway it does work
> > here with a CD I picked more or less at random. Normally, though, I
> > might be inclined to play cds through konqueror audiocd, or amarok, or
> > what have you. i don't usually do that in mplayer.
> >
> > And you can span tracks - like cdda://1-10 or what have you.
>
> If you feel adventurous, try my little script that uses mplayer for CD
> playing on the command line. :-)
>
>  You need the following small packages in
> addition to mplayer:
>
> cdtool
> setcd
> abcde
>
> (abcde is actually a very nice ripping script, but I use it for
> cddb lookups - and all of these packages are very small)
>
> You can read the script here:
>
> http://inx.maincontent.net/cdmp
>
> but the easiest way is to run the following commands in order:
>
> sudo apt-get install cdtool setcd abcde
>
> wget http://inx.maincontent.net/cdmp
>
> chmod +x cdmp
>
> (load your CD then..)
>
> ./cdmp
>
> Alternatively, copy the script to /usr/local/bin so you can call it
> using just "cdmp"
>
> It looks like this:
> http://inx.maincontent.net/Screenshot-1.png
> http://inx.maincontent.net/Screenshot.png
>
> Hope you and/or some other list members enjoy it :)
> I hope to add in options to make better use of abcde in future.
>
> --
> Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>
>
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So does this all mean that at the moment there's a fault in ubuntu and/or
related programs such that you can not play a cd with wmv files using
mplayer, real player etc?  So for the moment anyway we need to run these
scripts?

Gary
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