[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux CD player recommendation

[Leroy Tennison]

Chris Cox wrote:
> Leroy Tennison wrote:
>   
>> Earlier I emailed about wanting to use both CD devices in my PC to play 
>> CDs (running CentOS 4.4 using KDE).  The (correct) answer was that KsCD 
>> pointed to a specific device and the suggestion was to try the Gnome CD 
>> player if I wanted to use the second CD device.  Having tried that and 
>> dealt with some issues it sort-of works.  I can play a CD with Gnome's 
>> CD player (gnome-cd 2.8) but:
>>
>>    1. On startup it defaults to a data format.
>>    2. It plays only one track.
>>    3. There doesn't appear to be any way to configure it differently
>>    4. Help? - What help?
>>
>> Before I invest a lot of time fighting with Gnome-cd or trying out who 
>> knows how many other alternatives before I find something acceptable, 
>> I'm looking for recommendations or advice from someone who's "been there 
>> - done that".
>>
>>
>> If Gnome-cd can be made to work where's the configuration file and what 
>> do i need to put in it?
>>
>> Any recommendations of a CD player which can:
>>
>>    1. Recognize the CD type or can be configured to default to a music
>>       CD (essential)
>>    2. Play all of the tracks automatically (essential)
>>    3. Can auto-start/play at CD insertion (highly desirable)
>>    4. Can check all CD devices for music CDs (would really be nice)
>>    5. Allows selection of tracks to play (would be really nice for those
>>       CDs which have "dog songs" mixed in with the goodies)
>>    6. Can auto-replay after the last song (nice to have)
>>    7. Can sing and dance at the same time (OK, OK, I'm pressing my
>>       luck... ;-) )
>>
>> Thanks for any and all replies
>>     
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> I believe amarok can do all of these things.  Perhaps overkill.
>
> You'll also get lyrics, album covers, wikipedia lookup of the artist,
> etc.  It's pretty complete.
>
> Not sure how easy this would be to do with CentOS... CentOS isn't
> a great distrib for doing desktop things.
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Thank God for one of the CentOS developers 
(http://centos.karan.org/el4/extras/stable/i386/RPMS/) who has RPMed 
Amarok and it's TagLib dependency plus a number of other things.  I 
tried to build them from source and, after a lot of dependency 
discoveries/installs, ran into a Qt dependency problem I didn't know how 
to solve.  Downloaded the CentOS rpms and installed them, works fine and 
indeed does what I want it to - thanks Chris!