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Re: Has anyone gotten NextDeveloper/Demos/CDPlayer.app to work?

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From: Jim De Arras
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:08
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In article <1992Sep27.175746.15312@muddcs.claremont.edu>  
wfp@jupiter.claremont.edu (W. Frank Price III) writes:
> 
> CDPlayer never auto-boots for me either.  When CDPlayer is running, I can  
> insert a CD and it will keep it in the drive instead of auto-ejecting it as  
> usual.  But it will not recognize the CD as audio and allow me to play it.   
It  
> just sits there in the drive doing nothing and it seems to read my hard drive  
> periodically while it does this.  It doesn't matter whether I am root or not  
> when this occurs.  I tried what some suggested of moving CDPlayer to  
> LocalApps, but that made no difference.  Could it be that I am using an Apple  
> CD-ROM drive?  It looks and operates just like the NeXT drive in every other  
> way (i.e. I installed 3.0 from it).
> 
> Looking forward to coaxing out some music from this thing.
> 
Well, despite my other gripes about 3.0, I have to say that CDPlayer 'just  
works' on my machine.  In fact, I 'discovered' it when I mounted an audio disk  
just to see what it would do.  CDPlayer poped right up, and worked/works great!

> -- Frank
> __________________________________________________________________________
> Frank Price               | wprice@pomona.claremont.edu
>                           | "Nothing crashes like a Macintosh."
> NeXTMail appreciated      |      - Guy Kawasaki

Jim
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