[svlug] Wish there was a program that..

[Tim]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 06:36:54PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> Here's my suggestion for a quick project: a CD player program that works
> on machines that have no hardware connection between the CD and the sound
> card.  (This has been suggested before on this list).  The back end is
> simple enough: get the data from cdparanoia, send it to the sound driver
> of your choice.  Attach it to a reasonable front end, perhaps the GUI from
> some existing CD player.  This capability currently seems to be missing,
> people will thank you, and it doesn't require great skill.

There are a couple XMMS input plugins which do this:

CDDA Paranoia (site down? nonexistent?)
  http://www02.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/ca2/kzmi/xmms/

  I guess his ISP reconfigured their user homepage servers.  Finally found
  his page, here:
    http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp/kzmi/

xmms-cdread:
  ftp://mud.stack.nl/pub/OuterSpace/willem/

   - Tim