[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux CD player recommendation
Leroy Tennison
leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
Sat Apr 7 23:36:43 CDT 2007
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
>>
>
> 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!
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