[TriLUG] Playing CD's without an audio cable?

[Josh Vickery]

Digital Audio Extraction (DAE) has more or less replaced the audio
cable.  I'm not familiar with xmcd, but xmms, for instance, has a "use
DAE" checkbox under the CD player options.

Josh

On 10/12/06, Andrew Perrin <clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu> wrote:
> My new office computer (an IBM ThinkCentre 8212-UN7) has a CD-ROM drive,
> but no audio cable comes out the back of it, and there's no place on the
> motherboard to plug one into it.  Predictably enough, when I bring up a cd
> player (e.g., xmcd), I get no audio output, but cdda2wav produces a
> perfectly fine audio file.
>
> Is there some new standard for CD playing that doesn't require this cable?
> Is there some new software I should be using?
>
> ap
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