Hi,

Firstly, apologies for starting this thread because judging by the search results it's a common topic. However, i've just spent 2 hours looking through threads on here and googling without any success.

I can't get CD audio to play at all using xmms although dcd works fine at the command line. I'm running Debian testing/unstable on the 2.4.22 kernel with KDE 3.1.3, xmms 1.2.7, and Audio CD Reader 0.14a (libcdread.so)
hdparm output looks like this...

toranaga:/home/simon# hdparm -i /dev/cdrom

/dev/cdrom:

Model=Compaq CRD-8484B, FwRev=1.06, SerialNo=
Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }
RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0
(maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 *mdma2
AdvancedPM=no

I've tried every permutation of options in the audio cd plugin but every time i try and load /dev/cdrom in xmms nothing happens. It's not even as if it's playing the cd without sound - xmms just sits there as if I haven't loaded anything at all.
I can mount data cd's, listen to mp3's and, having just installed it with apt, play cd's with dcd but xmms doesn't want to know.

Thanks in advance
D.

there is another audio CD reader plugin for xmms, maybe give that one a try? have a look on freshmeat.net