CD audio: preference to limit drive speed?

[John Reiser <jreiser BitWagon com>]

Is there a preference to limit the drive speed when playing
compact disc digital audio?  I find that "eject -x 8 /dev/cdrom"
is much quieter than the full speed (such as 48x) that appears to be
the default.  Would it be a preference of hal, nautilus, each player
application, gnome-desktop, or what?

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