Only gnome-cd No Sound
 

I just installed FC3. The sound card test works fine. I can use Sound Juicer to extract music files from Audio CD and play the extracted file with either Real Player or Music Player. They sounds fine, too. My problem is that

1. I cannot use Real Player to play Audio CD directly as gnome-cd does. The gnome-cd device is set to /dev/cdrom which is a link to x-special/device-block (what is it by the way?). Real player does not have a place to set device. Since audio CD does not hold any filesystem, it won't mount and the /media/cdrecorder displays blank. Any one knows how to feed the audo CD into Real Player as default instead of gnome-cd?

2. Why should I bother? Because gnome-cd has no sound. When I insert an audio CD, gnome-cd reads, displays the tracks, and plays. The only job it fails do is to produce sound. I slided the volume control to max. Still no sound. Everything else makes sound except for gnome-cd. That's why I want to feed audio cd to real player instead gnome-cd. Anyone knows how to make gnome-cd utter a sound?

I have searched on the web and tried numerous recipes, none have worked. My goal is to just use a player to play audio CD directly rather than having to extract files first. Please help!

My guess is that your CD drive does not have a audio output cable attached from the back of your CD Drive to the mother board somewhere. That I think is the reason why you see the cd being played but no sound. Unlike windows (which can read cd's directly and direct its output to speakers), Linux needs a audio cable (must have come with your CD box) attached to motherboard to channel the sound.

This is what I think...I may be wrong!

Tux,

yep, that's what I reckon is wrong, but the cable only goes to the motherboard if your mobo has onboard sound. if you have a sound card i.e. in a ISA or PCI slot, the cable will go to there instead of the motherboard. the cable you are looking for looks like this:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tb...img/CDAUDB.jpg

there is only one place the cable can go on the cdrom, so you're right there, but most of the time there is more than one place it can go on the mobo/soundcard. its probably the one that says something like "cdrom1" or "cd in".
this is not true, it depends on the method the program is using to play the cd. there are linux programs (e.g. totem) that can play cds without the cord in, and apparently there are ones that can choose between which mode you want to use to play the cd, although I don't know which ones.

Do you mean the gnome-cd is not capable of processing digital sound? If so, any way to set another capable player as default audio cd player?

yeah thats what i mean. go to preferences -> something that has a CD icon, i think it's "removable storage" and you can configure it there

There is no such a thing as "removable storage" under preference to configure. Can you be more specific?

OK. now I really understand what you meant. xmms works fine without a cable.
Thanks a lot for your help:-)