[SunRescue] Good free cd and mp3 player programs for Solaris 8

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I'm assuming you've installed a CD-Audio input plugin.   Do you know, is
the plugin you installed a CDDA type plugin (reads the audio data and
plays through sound hardware) or does it use ioctl calls to make the CD
play itself?  Which ever you have, try finding the other type of plugin.
I seem to remeber from past experience (long ago before XMMS was out) that
Suns didn't like one method, but I can't remeber which.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Chris Byrne wrote:

> I've tried xmms and it plays mp3'2 just fine, but for some reason I cant get
> it to play audio cds. As to envirnoment I'm in standard cde for now.
> 
> Chris Byrne
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Joshua D. Boyd
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 19:30
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Good free cd and mp3 player programs for
> Solaris 8
> 
> 
> XMMS?  Never actually tried it on Solaris (I don't have access to
> suitably fast suns for MP3s, never cared to try CDs on Suns), but they
> have a Sun audio plugin.  I know that XMMS works well on Irix (O2s and
> Onyxs).
> 
> BTW, what desktop environment are you using?  You might try Ximian Gnome
> for Solaris.  Whatever you do, don't put enlightenment on an O2 (someone
> did that at school and it is soooo slow).
> 
> --
> Joshua Boyd
> 
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Chris Byrne wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > I'm looking for a good, free, cddb capable cd player, mp3 player and
> general
> > audio and video players for sun. Any recommendations?
> >
> > Chris Byrne
> >
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