I'm on a computer that I am not allowed to open, so I can't add an audio cable. There's already Linux with xine and KsCD. I don't have sound when I play an audio CD. How can I do?

Ummm, magic?

If there's no cable attaching the CD to the soundcard, you're just sort of out of luck, I think.

See if you can switch to 'digital audio extraction' in the preferences of your player. That may work, though I'm not positive.

If you have a headphone socket on the drive use a pair of headphones or remove the speaker cable from the soundcard and plug it into the headphone socket.

I don't have a head phone. But it works in Windows. It should work in Linux. I can't believe it... Should I request it at the xine developers to implement it? :|

Or, if nothing else, just use cdparanoia and an encoder to rip the thing and play it back as a whatever form you encode it as. Don't have to play the cd to hear the cd.

You don't have a headphone socket or you don't have headphones? You did check the mixer volume for your cd, didn't you? Better still use digiots suggestion and eliminate disc juggling

BTW:If you're not allowed to open the computer, how do you know there's no cable attached?

not sure about xine, but you can use a plugin like libcdaudio in xmms.

Have you tried Amarok? Install amarok, amarok-xine, libxine1, and libxine1-ffmpeg, libvisual, and libvisual-plugins, libmad, liblame, lame, toolame. It should automatically also install libtunepimp (something like that). Use whatever package manager your distro uses. On Debian, I use Aptitude.

Amarok puts itself into the KDE auto-run, so on my Debian Lenny system when I insert a cd the autorun has play in amarok as one of the choices.

For me, it used digital playback automatically. I do have that cable connected but the cd volume slider in KMix has no effect which means it is playing through the standard PCM/Wave IDE cable.

Since it's on digital, the EQ in Amarok and the visualizations will work. I usually (on my Audigy 2 ZS) change a few things only when I'll be listening to music. I use KMix and turn on the bass and treble controls and raise them to about 70%, turn on the 3D control and turn it up to the first notch, plug in my headphones and turn down my speaker volume (can't figure out how to mute that in the mixer like Windows would with the Creative AudioConsole), and set the Amarok EQ to my desired levels.

If you have a Music folder, the first time wizard in Amarok will let you browse to it and it will then setup your library. If you don't have jpeg album covers, you can later use it to search Amazon and add them for you so you can see them while playing. Just wait until the wizard finishes setting things up then you're all set.

I'm not sure, but I think Kaffeine can also use digital for cd playback. But I use Kaffeine for my video playback and Amarok for my music listening.

WOW , you do all this just to listen to audio cd's

Xine, Rhythmbox, Amarok, etc should all be able to play CD audio with no problems, even without the analog audio cable to your sound card.

Make sure you are using a recent version of each of these, and you should have no problems.

--Ian

Naah, I just get carried away sometimes. I figure as long as I'm suggesting a program, I might as well list the stuff that helps to get that program playing everything it can, not only cd's.

I think even good old Kscd has an options area where it can be set to either digital or analog. I just like EQ's and visualizations and stuff, so I appreciate the additional functions of the other programs.