[UCLA-LUG] CD player

mike chan snotty@linux.com
Wed, 03 May 2000 22:23:31 -0700


hrm... have you checked that the audio cable from your cdrom is connected
to your sound card correctly?

mike

At 08.27 PM 5.3.2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks. But the problem is that although it shows in the
>screen that it's reading the cd rom and the song is playing,
>there is no sound. I did sndconfig and the sound test is
>successfull. 
>
>Thanks a lot.
>
>Ming
>
>On Wed, 3 May 2000, Matt Helsley wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 3 May 2000, MIng Yu wrote:
>> > I just installed RH6.2 in my home computer. The sound card works 
>> > fine. But when I opened cd player, it says that "No matching 
>> > CDDB entry found". 
>> > 
>> > Could anyone tell me what I should do to this? 
>> This is not really an error you should be very concerned about.
>> 
>> CDDB is an acronym for "CD DataBase". Basically, the program is telling
>> you that it could not find an entry in the local CD database, or in the
>> internet-wide CD database. This means that your tracks won't be labelled
>> with the names of the songs, and the CD program won't know who made the
>> music, or what the title of the CD is. Typically, no one cares since CD
>> drives are usually used to:
>> 1) Read data from
>> 2) Play music from
>> 
>> And the lack of a CDDB entry interferes with neither of these functions.
>> 
>> 
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