Hi Folks,

I'm haveing trouble playing CDs. KsCD correctly identifies the disc (artist, title, track etc) and starts to play but I don't get any sound. I get all the beebs and jingles from KDE and websites via my main speakers so that connection seems okay. Also, when I play CDs in Windoze I don't have any problems. I'm therefore assuming it's not hardware related. Any ideas?

Cheers,

Rob

PS -

I'd guess that it's hardware related, well, kinda . There's a very tiny little cord that should be plugged between the CD-Rom to the sound card/mother board. That cord is the one responsible for playing audio CD's.

Now, I know that you can play it on Windows. Most likely, the reason for it is because the program you used in Windows allows digital extraction of the audio disk (say, winamp). In Linux, that's also possible, xmms has a plugin for it, so you can play CD's without the need of that cord.

Basically, you either buy that cable, or use xmms. Now, if you do, have that cable already connected, then something spooky has happened

Good luck!

Ahhhhh, I know the cable you mean.

Many thanks,

Rob

Sometimes KsCD is muted by default, so you may wanna check it's volume levels.

Have fitted the cable and now have sound. Many thanks.

Rob