I have searched the forum, and seen that this is a quite common problem in Linux. I have CD player tools, and they seem to play the CD, but no sound comes out. I have also tried the CD audio plugin of XMMS, however, /dev/cdrom is not coming up as a directory, it comes up as a file, so it doesn't play. I'm running SuSE 9.1, other programs in my computer make sound, and I can play MP3's fine. Can anyone give a pointer?

Thanks!

/dev/cdrom is a device, which gets mounted to a folder (usually /mnt/cdrom , check your /etc/fstab file to see where it is mnted) If you look in this folder you should be able to browse the cd. As for no sound, if it's actually playing from the correct location then I'm not sure about that one.

Are you sure there is an audio cable running from the CD drive to the sound card or motherboard?
A CD with audio files is not mountable.

In XMMS
Press Ctrl+L (open location) and enter the file corresponding to the cdrom device (ex /dev/cdrom )

Nope, not sure. If I don't have one, is there a way around that?

Doesn't work, gives me an empty playlist...

Courthold, yes, an audio CD can't be mounted. It should link directly to the device...

Are you sure it's not one of these protected CD? (it cant be read in an cd-rom drive.. normally, an autorun launches a program in windows to read hidden mp3 files)

Yup. I don't think they had that technology back in the early 1990's. Plus I tried with a custom CD that I made myself.

I got it to work. First of all, I opened my computer to switch my CD drives around (I now have three, CD writer, DVD reader, and an external DVD writer), and while I was tinkering with the innards of my system, I attached the sound cable to one of my drives. No go with KsCD. So I decided to keep trying with XMMS. Here's what you need to do:

-open up properties of XMMS, and go to the plugins tab
-select the CD player plugin, and go to configure
-set DEVICE to /dev/{your_device} (i.e. /dev/cdrecorder, or /dev/dvd)
-set DIRECTORY to /media/{your_device} (kernel 2.6+)
-set the play mode to "Digital Audio Extraction"

Be sure to add all your CD drives. Once you have done that, you may load your audio CD into the drive of your choice, open XMMS, go to "Open URL" and enter the path you put into the "Directory" box in your configuration. The titles should come up.

Good luck!