How can I use CD Player? [SECOND (better) question]

[Richard England]

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>Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:02:41 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Hoffmann <oasf2004 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: How can I use CD Player? [SECOND  (better) question]
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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>--- "N. James Bridge" <james at xmas.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 17:31 -0700, Hoffmann wrote:
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>>>Hi All:
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>>>I am new to Fedora, and I still didn't realize how
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>>can
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>>>I use CD Player. I put a CD into the CD drive, I
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>>push
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>>>the 'play' button and nothing hapened.
>>>Could anyone explain me how to use CD Player?
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>>Do you see a cd icon appear on the screen, with the
>>legend "Audio Disc"?
>>If so, double click on it and all will become
>>clear...
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>>James
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>Hi All:
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>I do know that, right after putting a CD into the CD
>drive, automatically the CD Player screen appears on
>the screen. The problem is: when I push the PLAY
>button nothing happens. It seems like it is not
>possible to play a CD from the CD (drive), or the CD
>Player is ignoring the CD that is into the CD dive? I
>mean, with Fedora, all we need to do is to rippe the
>CD first? If that is the case, multimedia should be
>improved a lot on linux. Right now, all the time I
>want to listen to a CD (without to ripe it first), I
>need to move to Windows. Well, I would like to do that
>with Fedora, instead.
>Any new hint?
>Thanks!
>Hoffmann
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I had a machine at work with this symptom and it was the lack of audio 
connection cable from the CD drive to the sound card that was causing 
the problem. This was alluded to earlier by:

"Charles E. \"Rick\" Taylor, IV" <tomalek at mindspring.com
Message-ID: <1119575471.4820.3.camel at eternalsphere>

You need to open up your machine and verify that this cable is in place. 
The only alternative is to find a CD player that will play them 
digitally. Something like mplayer or xmms, perhaps?

--R