audio for CD/DVD

[kondor]

Install on new Intel 875 board, Pent 4 .0, SATA drives, DVD-RW/CD-RW, Audigy sound card -

Sound works for System junk but no sound on audio playback. Disc spins, no sound. I saw a note <somewhere> that newer players are digital and Linux handles only analog - that I would have to ensure that players had analog data enabled?

Help - ALSA not installed yet - would that cure the digital/analog problem, if that actually exists?

Thanks

[Jman]

ALSA won't do any good if your CD drive doesn't do analog audio. There's a little cable that should connect your CD player and your sound card for analog audio. Most don't have it, as a cost cutting measure. (PC manufacturers are really cheap.) Most modern CD players read the data right from the disk and decode it with the CPU.

The problem is getting Fedora software to extract digital audio. The gnome cd player doesn't, and neither does XMMS by default. There is an rpm package that adds digital extraction to XMMS: xmms-cdread. To install it I recommend yum and the setup in this faq (http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#InstallSoftware).
yum install xmms-cdread
as root and you should be set with XMMS. Just add the cd device to your XMMS playlist. It's probably /dev/cdrom.

[foolish]

Remember that you can set what gnome should do when you insert an audio cd with gnome-cd-properties.